In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

In the Church of England, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 ( replacing the Church Assembly ), is the legislative body of the Church.

Nonetheless, a full dogmatic articulation of the canon was not made until the 1546 Council of Trent for Roman Catholicism, the 1563 Thirty-Nine Articles for the Church of England, the 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith for Calvinism, and the 1672 Synod of Jerusalem for Greek Orthodoxy.

* Measure of the Church of England is a law passed by the General Synod and the UK Parliament equivalent of an Act

Nonetheless, full dogmatic articulations of the canon were not made until the Canon of Trent of 1546 for Roman Catholicism, the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for the Greek Orthodox.

The existing 27-book canon of the New Testament was reconfirmed ( for Roman Catholicism ) in the 16th century with the Council of Trent ( also called the Tridentine Council ) of 1546, the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563 for the Church of England, the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 for Calvinism, and the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672 for Eastern Orthodoxy.

* 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

In 1155, three years after the Synod of Kells, Adrian IV published the Papal Bull ' Laudabiliter ', which was addressed to the Angevin King Henry II of England.

* November 12 – The Church of England General Synod votes to admit women to holy orders.

He has been a member of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee, the General Synod of the Church of England, the Doctrine Commission, and the Human Genetics Commission.

Synods were held in Ireland, Gaul, and England ( e. g. the Synod of Whitby ) but a degree of variation continued in Britain after the Ionan church accepted the Roman date.

In addition to its primary source material and books on the Anglo-Catholic Movement ( Tractarian and Oxford Movements ), in recent times the library has become a library of record and resource centre for the Church of England, holding General Synod papers, runs of church newspapers and directories and other relevant material and publications as well as the theses written for Lambeth degrees and diplomas.

Under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919 a Measure of the General Synod of the Church of England becomes law once it has received Royal Assent in the same way as an Act of Parliament.

Since 1993, the Sodor and Man Diocesan Synod has had power to enact Measures making provision " with respect to any matter concerning the Church of England in the Island ".

* Isaac Watts is commemorated in the Church of England, the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 25 November and in the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on 26 November.

Apart from its distinct customs and liturgies ( such as the Sarum rite ), the organizational machinery of the Church of England was in place by the time of the Synod of Hertford in 672 – 673, when the English bishops were first able to act as one body under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

On February 7, 2006, the Synod of the Church of England decided to divest itself of approximately US $ 2. 2 million in Caterpillar Inc. shares, property of the Church of England.

The Governing Body functions as a kind of parliament ( similar to the Church of England General Synod ) for the Church.

It has been suggested that Hitchin was the location of < em > Clofeshoh </ em >, the place chosen in 673 by Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus during the Synod of Hertford, the first nationwide meeting of representatives of the fledgling Catholic churches of Anglo-Saxon England, to hold annual synods of the churches as Theodore attempted to consolidate and centralise Catholicism in England.

He became a member of the Catholic Church in 1992, although had previously been a practicing Anglican and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.

The first mention of the town is in 673 A. D., the first Synod of all the Bishops in England was held in Hertford.

The General Synod of the Church of England is sometimes described as tricameral.

Ealdred ( or Aldred ; died 11 September 1069 ) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England.

Ealdred was probably born in the west of England, and could be related to Lyfing, his predecessor as bishop of Worcester.

According to the medieval chronicler John of Worcester, Ealdred was given the see of Ramsbury to administer while Herman remained outside England.

For whatever reason, Ealdred gave up the see of Worcester in 1062, when papal legates arrived in England to hold a council and make sure that Ealdred relinquished Worcester.

In 2003, 8 out of 17 members at the Lions Club in Worcester, England resigned when a woman joined the club.

Very large were the concessions made by Richelieu in his personal interviews with Amyraut ; but, as with the Worcester House negotiations in England between the Church of England and nonconformists, they inevitably fell through.

He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by Thomas Fuller, a contemporary writer, in his Worthies of England.

* 1651 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.

First made at 60 Broad Street, Worcester, England, by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, the Lea & Perrins brand was commercialised in 1837 and has been produced in the current Midlands Road factory in Worcester since 16 October 1897.

* September 3 – English Civil War – Battle of Worcester: the future King Charles II of England is defeated in the last major battle of the war.

* Dunstan becomes bishop of Worcester, England and London.

In 1965 and 1974 – 1975, a major re-organisation of local government created in England and Wales several new administrative counties such as Hereford and Worcester and also created several new metropolitan counties which served large urban areas as a single administrative unit.

By 1523, according to a tax assessment, Totnes was the second richest town in Devon, and the sixteenth richest in England, ahead of Worcester, Gloucester and Lincoln.

* Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, leads troops from England on an unsuccessful punitive raid against Welsh leaders Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

With many of the Scots ( including Lord Argyll and other leading Covenanters ) refusing to participate, and with few English royalists joining the force as it moved south into England, the invasion ended in defeat at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, after which Charles eluded capture by hiding in the Royal Oak at Boscobel House.

Samuel Worcester campaigned on behalf of the Cherokee in New England, where their cause was taken up by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( see Emerson's 1838 letter to Martin Van Buren ).

Stanton seemed to agree ; in an address to the National Woman Suffrage Association ( NWSA ) convention in 1870, on the subject of the women's rights movement, she said " The movement in England, as in America, may be dated from the first National Convention, held at Worcester, Mass., October, 1850.

* Worcester, a city in England and the county town of Worcestershire.

The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 at Worcester, England and was the final battle of the English Civil War.

The military quality of the Welsh border Royalists was well proved, that of the Gloucestershire Presbyterians not less so, and, in basing himself on Gloucester and Worcester as his father had done on Oxford, Charles II hoped, naturally, to deal with the Independent faction minority of the English people more effectually than Charles I had earlier dealt with the majority of the people of England who had supported the Parliamentary cause.

The New England preacher Hugh Peters gave the militia a rousing farewell sermon " when their wives and children should ask them where they had been and what news, they should say they had been at Worcester, where England's sorrows began, and where they were happily ended ", referring to the first clash of the Royalist and Parliamentarian Armies at the Battle of Powick Bridge on 23 September 1642, almost exactly nine years before.