Along with his colleague the Archbishop of York he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's important boards and committees ; power in the church is not highly centralised, however, so the two archbishops can often lead only through persuasion.

The Church considers the first seven Ecumenical Councils ( held between the 4th and the 8th century ) to be the most important ; however, there have been more, specifically the Synods of Constantinople, 879 – 880, 1341, 1347, 1351, 1583, 1819, and 1872, the Synod of Iaşi ( Jassy ), 1642, and the Pan-Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, 1672, all of which helped to define the Orthodox position.

Formally, these failed when they were rejected by the Church of England's General Synod in 1972 ; conversations and co-operation continued, however, leading in 2003 to the signing of a covenant between the two churches.

The first council that accepted the present canon of the New Testament may have been the Synod of Hippo Regius in North Africa ( AD 393 ); the acts of this council, however, are lost.

According to Turkish law, still in force today, he is subject to the authority of the Republic of Turkey ; however, Turkey allows the Standing Synod of Metropolitan Bishops to elect the Patriarch.

This is different than some other Lutheran bodies which have maintained episcopal polity ; however, this is not considered to be a point of doctrine, as the Synod is in fellowship with some Lutheran church bodies in Europe that have an episcopal structure.

" The Second Israelitish Synod, held in Augsburg ( 1871 ), passed a resolution to the same effect, adding that " For the sake of liberty of conscience, however, no rabbi will refuse, on request of the parties, to conduct the ceremony of halizah in a proper form.

The Synod formally brought the Saint Thomas Christians into to Catholic Church ; however, the actions of the Portuguese over the ensuing years fueled resentment in segments of the community, and ultimately led to open resistance to their power.

At the end of his life, however, he favoured the Calvinist Contra-Remonstrants ' side at the Synod of Dort, as he wrote to Daniel Heinsius.

The position was given to the then-President of Synod Vitaly Vvedensky, however since mid-1920s all power in the Renovationist Church had consolidated in the hands of its actual leader, Metropolitan Alexander Vvedensky.

* 1957: In 1957 the Unity Synod of the Moravian Church declared of women's ordination " in principle such ordination is permissible " and that each province is at liberty to " take such steps as seem essential for the maintenance of the ministry of the Word and Sacraments ;” however, while this was approved by the Unity Synod in 1957, the Northern Province of the Moravian Church did not approve women for ordination until 1970 at the Provincial Synod, and it was not until 1975 that the Rev.

This is only necessary in a Protestant frame of mind, however, as Catholics see the Catholic Church as having God-given ability to determine the New Testament canon, which it did in the Synod of Rome, the Synod of Carthage, and reaffirmed at the Council of Trent.

This right, however, was restored to Roman noblemen by Pope Nicholas I during a Synod of Rome in 862.

Under present procedure, however, the Synod may only meet while called by the pope.

He is, however, subject to the Sacred Canons of the Orthodox Church, and answers to the Synod of Bishops to which he belongs.

Bishop Basil, however, refused to meet with the commission appointed by the Holy Synod to conduct this enquiry, and recommended others not to do so either, opting instead to set forth his views on his web-page and in the media.

They said, however, that they did not desire to break from communion with the members of the Synod.

Formally, these failed when they were rejected by the Church of England's General Synod in 1972, however conversations and co-operation continued leading in 2003 to the signing of a covenant between the two churches.

They were again banned in 1611, however, and a Catholic collection of Hungarian church songs was not agreed upon until 1629, at the Synod of Nagyszombat.

Dr. Raymond Hartwig, president of the South Dakota district of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, commented: " They use the Bible in a very simplistic form, as a springboard to jump into the law.

In response, in 1924, the Synod of Bishops of the Church of Greece voted to accept an altered form of the Gregorian calendar that both maintained the traditional Julian calendar Paschalion for calculating the date of Pascha and all of the moveable feasts dependent on it, but adopted a system of dates which will agree with the Gregorian Calendar (" New Calendar ") dates until 2800, when the two will start very slowly to diverge, due to slightly different methods of calculating leap years.

When Derek Pattinson retired as Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England in 1990, a choir sang a variation on the Major-General's Song, with the line " He was the very model of a Secretary-General ", in a meeting of the General Synod.

By the early 1930s, the very survival of the college was in jeopardy ; on two occasions the Synod of Arkansas came within a few votes of closing the school.

He was very involved with the 1875 Union of the four Presbyterian groups that become the Presbyterian Church in Canada ; not all of his contemporaries in the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the Maritime Provinces of British North America joined with him in this new group, that eventually elected him Moderator of their General Assembly in 1889.

This very image of God the Father is used in New Testament Trinity icons ; until the Great Synod of Moscow in 1667 it was a matter of theological debate whether the Ancient of Days from the Book of Daniel was Christ or God the Father.

In consequence, the Synod of Ancyra published a long reply addressed to George and the other bishops of Phoenicia, in which they recite the Creed of Antioch ( 341 ), adding explanations against the " unlikeness " of the Son to the Father taught by the Arians and Anomoeans, ( from anomoios ), and showing that the very name of father implies a son of like substance ( homoiousios, or homoios kat ousian ) Anathematisms are appended in which Anomoeanism is explicitly condemned and the teaching of " likeness of substance " enforced.

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, Archbishop Gómez, who, as stated earlier, is the chief shepherd of a very dynamic and culturally, ethnically, and racially diverse Archdiocese, was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as one of the papally-appointed Synod Fathers for the upcoming October 2012 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization.

The United Secession Church ( or properly the United Associate Synod of the Secession Church ) was a Scottish Presbyterian denomination.

: While bishops at Nicaea were deliberating about this, some thought that a law ought to be passed enacting that bishops and presbyters, deacons and subdeacons, should hold no intercourse with the wife they had espoused before they entered the priesthood ; but Paphnutius, the confessor, stood up and testified against this proposition ; he said that marriage was honorable and chaste, and that cohabitation with their own wives was chastity, and advised the Synod not to frame such a law, for it would be difficult to bear, and might serve as an occasion of incontinence to them and their wives ; and he reminded them, that according to the ancient tradition of the church, those who were unmarried when they took part in the communion of sacred orders, were required to remain so, but that those who were married, were not to put away their wives.

At the First Synod of Tyre in AD 335, they brought accusations against Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the primary opponent of Arius ; after this, Constantine had Athanasius banished, since he considered him an impediment to reconciliation.

Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which hold a commemoration for him, Aquila and Priscilla on February 13.

Cyril refused and the Synod deposed him in 357.

They held a synod in 403 ( the Synod of the Oak ) to charge John, in which his connection to Origen was used against him.

He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on February 16 and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on June 25 ( The LCMS commemorates him on his date of birth, and the ELCA on the date of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession ).

But the feeling against him in France was growing so hostile that it almost came to open violence at the Synod of Poitiers in 1076.

After the Synod of Whitby, Cuthbert seems to have accepted the Roman customs, and his old abbot, Eata, called on him to introduce them at Lindisfarne as prior there.

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which commemorates him and Philemon on February 15.

It was due entirely to him that Sigismund as king-elect was forced to confirm the resolutions at the Uppsala Synod in 1593, thereby recognizing the fact that Sweden was essentially a Lutheran Protestant state.

Again appealing to the emperor, the archbishop was recommended by him to submit to the pope, which he did at the Roman Synod of November 861.

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

Henry Mayr-Harting considered him the “ chief cause of trouble which led to the Synod ”.

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod commemorates him as a patriarch on March 31.

The Synod of Diospolis therefore concluded: " Now since we have received satisfaction in respect of the charges brought against the monk Pelagius in his presence and since he gives his assent to sound doctrines but condemns and anathematises those contrary to the faith of the Church, we adjudge him to belong to the communion of the Catholic Church.

: The great Synod has stringently forbidden any bishop, presbyter, deacon, or any one of the clergy whatever, to have a subintroducta dwelling with him, except only a mother, or sister, or aunt, or such persons only as are beyond all suspicion.

A sermon he preached before the Synod at St Andrews against the dissoluteness of the clergy offended the provost, who placed him in prison, and might have carried his resentment further if Alesius had not escaped to Germany in 1532.

" In 1828 the General Synod of the German Reformed Church dropped him from its roster of ministers, in response to such complaints.

They held a synod in 403 ( the Synod of the Oak ) to charge John, in which his connection to Origen was used against him.

Bede tells us that Colmán, the bishop of the Northumbrians at the time of the Synod, had left for Scotland after the Synod went against him.

On 11 November 1969 the Holy Synod of the SOC appointed him assistant teacher for the monastic school at Ostrog Monastery.

In 1733, a sermon he preached on lay patronage at the Synod of Perth led to new accusations being levelled against him.

Maciel was asked by Pope John Paul II to accompany him on his visits to Mexico in 1979, 1990, and 1993, and was appointed, also by Pope John Paul II, to the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the formation of Candidates for the Priesthood in Actual Circumstances ( 1991 ).

He may be the Macarius, bishop of Magnesia, who, at the Synod of the Oak in 403, brought charges against Heraclides, bishop of Ephesus, the friend of John Chrysostom, although Adolf Harnack dated him in the late third century.