Both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church recognise as ecumenical the first seven councils, held from the 4th to the 9th century ; but while the Eastern Orthodox Church accepts no later council or synod as ecumenical, the Roman Catholic Church continues to hold general councils of the bishops in full communion with the Pope, reckoning them as ecumenical, and counting in all, including the seven recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church, twenty-one to date.

He first appears in the historical record as bishop of Angers at the synod of Rheims in 1049, and for a long time had been an adherent of Berengar's doctrine of the Lord's Supper.

This and the Belgic Confession were adopted as confessional standards in the first synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1571.

The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was founded in 968 at the synod of Ravenna ; Adalbert of Magdeburg was consecrated as its first archbishop.

The first record of the application of this title to a Bishop of Rome appears in a synod of 495 with reference to Pope Gelasius I.

At the synod which deposed him in July 964, the pastoral staff was broken over him by Pope Leo VIII ; this is the first mention of the papal sceptre.

With Lambert ’ s support, John was successfully installed as pope, and one of his first acts was to convene a synod which proceeded to excommunicate Sergius and his followers.

The synod also proposed the adoption of an astronomical rule for Easter: Easter was to be the Sunday after the midnight-to-midnight day at the meridian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ( 35 ° 13 ' 47. 2 " E or UT + 22055 for the small dome ) during which the first full moon after the vernal equinox occurs.

An astronomical rule for Easter was proposed by the 1923 synod that also proposed the Revised Julian calendar: Easter was to be the Sunday after the midnight-to-midnight day at the meridian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ( 35 ° 13 ' 47. 2 " E or UT + 2 < sup > h </ sup > 20 < sup > m </ sup > 55 < sup > s </ sup > for the small dome ) during which the first full moon after the vernal equinox occurs.

* The Roman synod exiles the prophet Jerome, who has incorporated ideas first propounded by the Roman statesman Cicero.

* The Concilium Germanicum, organized by Carloman and Saint Boniface, is the first major synod held in the Frankish church.

The synod enacts the first legislation against wooden altars, forbidding the building of any but stone altars with chrism ( a mixture of oil and spice ).

* Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund.

Finally, Waldo was excommunicated by Pope Lucius III during the synod held at Verona in 1184, and the doctrine of the Poor of Lyons was again condemned by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 where they are mentioned by name for the first time, and regarded as heresy.

His first recorded act was, after a synod had been held at Rome, to write to Emperor Constantius II, then in quarters at Arles ( 353 – 354 ), asking that a council might be called at Aquileia with reference to the affairs of Athanasius of Alexandria, but his messenger Vincentius of Capua was compelled by the emperor at a conciliabulum held in Arles to subscribe against his will to a condemnation of the orthodox patriarch of Alexandria.

Agatho agreed, but first held a preliminary synod at Rome 680 in order to obtain the opinion of the western theologians.

One of his first public acts was to hold the well-known Easter synod of 1049, at which celibacy of the clergy ( down to the rank of subdeacon ) was required anew.

* Pope Benedict holds first synod

" They organized their first national synod in 1558, in Paris.

Carloman was instrumental in convening the Concilium Germanicum in 742, the first major synod of the Catholic Church to be held in the eastern regions of the Frankish kingdom.

Having first visited the Emperor Louis at Pavia, the archbishop repaired, with two imperial delegates to Rome, where Nicholas cited him before the Roman synod assembled in the autumn of 860.

His efforts were not at first successful, for at the synod of Biterrae ( Béziers ), summoned in 356 by the Emperor Constantius with the professed purpose of settling the longstanding disputes, Hilary was, by an imperial rescript, banished with Rhodanus of Toulouse to Phrygia, where he spent nearly four years in exile.

The first mention of them in any written English law, is in a constitutional decree, made in a synod held A. D. 786, wherein the payment of tithes in general is strongly enjoined.

Similarly, the synod of Hungarian prelates at Szabolcs in the year 1092 recognized the legitimacy of the first marriage of the members of the clergy, which was contrary to canon law.

Perhaps if Felix had first come upon us when this boy was not cavorting so gaily up and down the hall outside the murdered woman's apartment, we might have had less trouble convincing Felix of our seriousness.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

* 1957 – Felix Wankel's first working prototype ( DKM 54 ) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany

Historically, the concept of fundamental group first emerged in the theory of Riemann surfaces, in the work of Bernhard Riemann, Henri Poincaré and Felix Klein, where it describes the monodromy properties of complex functions, as well as providing a complete topological classification of closed surfaces.

Interesting accounts of the impression produced by the performance at Rome may be found in the first volume of Felix Mendelssohn's letters and in Miss Taylor's Letters from Italy.

The guests in attendance included Aaron's first manager with the Braves, Charlie Grimm, his teammate from Jacksonville, Felix Mantilla, Eau Claire president Ron Berganson, and Del Crandall, the catcher for the 1957 world champion Braves and the-then manager of the Brewers.

The Klein bottle was first described in 1882 by the German mathematician Felix Klein.

However, further studies by Felix Bloch with Arnold Nordsieck, and Victor Weisskopf, in 1937 and 1939, revealed that such computations were reliable only at a first order of perturbation theory, a problem already pointed out by Robert Oppenheimer.

The first solution to the problem of deriving an orbit of binary stars from telescope observations was made by Felix Savary in 1827.

The existence of viruses that infect bacteria ( bacteriophages ) was first recognized by Frederick Twort in 1911, and, independently, by Felix d ' Herelle in 1917.

In 1951, the German engineer Felix Wankel began development of the engine at NSU Motorenwerke AG, where he first conceived his rotary engine in 1954 ( DKM 54, Drehkolbenmotor ).

* November 9 – Felix the Cat appears in Feline Follies, marking the first cartoon character to become popular.

* April – September – Felix Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain.

* April – September – Felix Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain.

** Felix Ysagun Manalo, first Executive Minister ( Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan ) of the Iglesia ni Cristo ( d. 1963 )

German lugers Felix Loch ( center ) and David Möller ( left ) occupied the first and second places, respectively, of the men's singles at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The story's protagonist, Hamilton Felix ( surname first ) is the archetypal superman ; he possesses a superhuman physique, an intellect to match it, and can expect to live centuries without any form of medical assistance.

After a publication on his first results in 1910, contradictory observations by Felix Ehrenhaft started a controversy between the two physicists.

As proof that Hitler was serious about Raeder's " Mediterranean plan " in late 1940, Kallis noted that Hitler made a major push to bring Spain into the war between September – December 1940, and on 12 November 1940 ordered the Army General Staff to treat planning for Operation Felix as their first priority.

During the 1970s, Oakland began to experience serious problems with gang-controlled dealing of heroin and cocaine when drug kingpin Felix Mitchell created the nation's first large-scale operation of this kind.

* 1954 – Felix Wankel creates the first working Wankel engine.

When the film was first released, The New York Times film critic Frank S. Nugent praised the film, writing, " The comedy, through Mr. Douglas's debonair performance and those of Ina Claire as the duchess and Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart and Alexander Grannach as the unholy three emissaries ; through Mr. Lubitsch's facile direction ; and through the cleverly written script of Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, has come off brilliantly.