In 744 the Synod of Soissons met at the instigation of Pippin III, and Saint Boniface, the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secured the condemnation of the Frankish bishop Adalbert and the Irish missionary Clement.

Bishop Rothad of Soissons had appealed to the pope against the decision of the Synod of Soissons of 861, which had deposed him.

The ARP General Synod meets yearly ( in recent years, it has, almost without exception, been held at Bonclarken ).

* May 29 – May 31 – The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.

It usually meets twice per year, but in December 2006 a rare joint meeting between the Metropolitan Council and the Holy Synod of Bishops was held.

The General Synod meets annually and is the representative body of the entire Church, establishing its policies, programs, and agenda.

When a Synod of bishops meets, a Gospel Book is often enthroned in a prominent place to show that Christ Himself presides over the meeting.

In the novel Absolution by Murder, which is set during the Synod of Whitby, Brother Eadulf is part of the deputation from Canterbury to the Synod, where he meets Sister Fidelma for the first time.

The Unity Synod meets every 7 years and is attended by delegates from the different Unity Provinces and affiliated Provinces ..

The PCEA ’ s supreme assembly is a Synod which meets annually hosted by one of the congregations.

The main administrative and legislative body is the Synod, which meets once every three years to elect a presiding bishop, called a Moderator, and an Executive Committee.

The Melkite Synod of Bishops, composed of all of the Church's bishops, meets each year to consider administrative, theological and issues affecting the entire Church.

The Synod meets formally every three years and it elects a Presiding Bishop from among their ranks as the church's titular head.

The highest legislative authority of the synod is the Synod Assembly, which meets annually.

The Synod Council normally meets five times every year and consists of 29 members.

Yearly, by demand of the ELCA constitution, the synod meets together with all rostered leaders ( clergy, associates in ministry, deacons, deaconesses, diaconal ministers ) as well as up to two representatives from each congregation ( more for larger congregations ) for Synod Assembly.

Deemed a heretic by the Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325, Arius was later exonerated in 335 at the regional First Synod of Tyre, and then, after his death, pronounced a heretic again at the Ecumenical First Council of Constantinople of 381.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

It was also Absalon who held the first Danish Synod at Lund in 1167.

Cardinal Walter Kasper used the latter term in his intervention at the 2005 Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

His views were condemned in a Synod at Alexandria, under Athanasius of Alexandria, in 362, and later subdivided into several different heresies, the main ones of which were the Polemians and the Antidicomarianites.

Athanasius himself was accused of mistreating Arians and the followers of Meletius of Lycopolis, and had to answer those charges at a gathering of bishops in Tyre, the First Synod of Tyre, in 335.

This goal, of showing the movement towards unity, explains Bede's animosity towards the British method of calculating Easter: much of the Historia is devoted to a history of the dispute, including the final resolution at the Synod of Whitby in 664.

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

His views were condemned in a Synod at Alexandria, under Athanasius of Alexandria, in 362, and later subdivided into several different heresies, the main ones of which were the Polemians and the Antidicomarianites.

* Queen's Speech at inauguration of seventh General Synod

Hildegard communicated with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier in 1147 and 1148.

Nevertheless, at the Synod of London ( 1396 ), the English bishops convened to condemn Wyclif.

" It notes that, " when the first direct evidence of infant Baptism appears in the second century, it is never presented as an innovation ," that 2nd-century Irenaeus treated baptism of infants as a matter of course, and that, " at a Synod of African Bishops, St. Cyprian stated that ' God's mercy and grace should not be refused to anyone born ', and the Synod, recalling that'all human beings ' are ' equal ', whatever be ' their size or age ', declared it lawful to baptize children ' by the second or third day after their birth '.

Local congregations are governed by Sessions made up of representatives of the congregation, a conciliar approach which is found at other levels of decision-making ( Presbytery, Synod and General Assembly ).

The Bishop ’ s Commission on Citizenship was established at the Fifteenth Session of Diocesan Synod in 1992 with the aim of restoring full citizenship of the islanders and restore the right of abode in the UK.

His best-known miracle is said to have taken place when he was preaching in the middle of a large crowd at the Synod of Brefi: the village of Llanddewi Brefi is said to stand on the spot where the ground on which he stood is reputed to have risen up to form a small hill.

At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees and began to look at alternatives for the future of the school.

* Synod of Hippo: A council at Hippo Regius ( Algeria ) is hosted by the Christian Church.

* Otto of Bamberg is suspended by the Pope, and Norbert of Xanten defends himself against charges of heresy at the Synod of Fritzlar.

He was present at the Synod of Antioch in April 379, where he unsuccessfully attempted to reconcile the followers of Meletius of Antioch with those of Paulinus.

Pope Stephen VI, the successor of Boniface, influenced by Lambert and Agiltrude, sat in judgment of Formosus in 897, in what was called the Cadaver Synod.

In 1870, the year when the newly created Kingdom of Italy carried out the Capture of Rome and put an end to the Pope's Temporal power ( Papal ) | temporal power, Laurens made this painting of the Cadaver Synod, a notorious Medieval event reflecting badly on the Papacy's reputation

The Catholic Church chronicler Rocco Palmo called Turkson the lone Scripture scholar in the Pope's " Senate " and believes that his status as a potential " papabile " has been elevated due to his appointment as spokesman for Second Synod for Africa in 2009.

* 1527-Martyrs ' Synod — organized by Anabaptists, it is the first Protestant missionary conference

Paul Mayerhoff lived in this tent for six months in 1896 at the beginning of his Call as a Wisconsin Synod missionary to the Apache.

Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken ( May 13, 1810, Verden an der Aller – May 4, 1876, San Francisco ) was a missionary, pastor and the second president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

He ministered to the Oakville and Knox 16 congregations ( and on special assignments throughout the region, and beyond ) for over twelve years, until he was appointed by the new Canada Presbyterian Church Synod, as a " foreign missionary " to assist his Knox College classmate John Black in the Red River Colony in 1862.

It was established by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in 1948 shortly after the Australian administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea permitted missionary activity to spread into the western highlands.

It has published monthly since January 1876, and served as the merger of The Presbyterian ( 1848 – 1875 ) of the Church of Scotland Canadian Synod, and the Home and Foreign Record of the Canada Presbyterian Church, ( 1861 – 1875 ) the latter coming from the 1861 merger of the Free Church and United Presbyterian Church of Canada's Canadian publications, The Ecclesiastical and missionary record for the Presbyterian Church of Canada ( in connection with the Free Church of Scotland ) ( printed since 1844, under the leadership and Editorship of Rev.

In 2005, the Synod of the PRC closed the denomination's missionary field work in Ghana, due to a lack of membership.