The Synod of Dort ( 1618 – 19 ) was called by the States General to consider the Five Articles of Remonstrance.

This Synod of Dort was open primarily to Dutch Calvinists ( Arminians were excluded ) with Calvinist representatives from other countries, and in 1618 published a condemnation of Arminius and his followers as heretics.

Category: Participants in the Synod of Dort

They took on distinctive views on clerical dress and in opposition to the episcopal system, particularly after the 1619 conclusions of the Synod of Dort were resisted by the English bishops.

The Coronis had been primarily prepared for the Synod of Dort, which sat from 13 November 1618 until 9 May 1619.

Category: Participants in the Synod of Dort

* November 13 – The Synod of Dort has its first meeting.

* May 8 – The Synod of Dort has its final meeting.

See the Synod of Dort.

His most significant influence in this regard was John Davenant, later an English delegate to the Synod of Dort, who managed to significantly soften that Synod's teaching regarding limited atonement.

The Synod of Dort in 1618 tackled this issue, which led to the banning of the Remonstrant faith.

* Synod of Dort 1618 / 1619

There had been previous provincial synods of Dort, and a National Synod in 1576.

For that reason the 1618 meeting is sometimes called the Second Synod of Dort.

The Decision of the Synod of Dort on the Five Main Points of Doctrine in Dispute in the Netherlands, popularly known as the Canons of Dort, is the explanation of the judicial decision of the Synod.

* Anthony Milton ( 2005 ), The British Delegation and the Synod of Dort ( 1618 – 1619 )

simple: Synod of Dort

* John Lothrop Motley, " History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort ".

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

Ruth is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on July 16, and is one of the Five Heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star.

However, Trent confirmed the statements of earlier and less authoritative regional councils which included also the deuterocanonical books, such as the Synod of Hippo ( 393 ), and the Councils of Carthage of 397.

The Lutheran Synod also has representatives in the General Synod.

Pre-ecumenical councils ( also known as synods ) include the Council of Jerusalem ( c. 50 ), the Council of Rome ( 155 AD ), the Second Council of Rome ( 193 AD ), the Council of Ephesus ( 193 AD ), the Council of Carthage ( 251 AD ), the Council of Iconium ( 258 AD ), the Council of Antioch ( 264 AD ), the Councils of Arabia ( 246 – 247 AD ), the Council of Elvira ( 306 AD ), the Council of Carthage ( 311 AD ), the Synod of Neo-Caesarea ( c. 314 AD ), the Council of Ancyra ( 314 AD ) and the Council of Arles ( 314 AD ).

She is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on May 24.

The United Church of Christ in the United States also calls their main governing body a General Synod.

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.

Honorius also ensured that Diego should play a leading role in the Synod of Carrión ( February 1130 ), having his legate approach Diego and ask for his assistance during the synod.

* At the Synod of Aquileia ( also referred to as the Synod of Pavia ), the bishops of the diocese of Aquileia decide to end the Schism of the Three Chapters and return to communion with Rome.

On 7 November 680, a mere 37 bishops and a number of presbyters convened in the imperial palace, in the domed hall called Trullo, from which the council also took the name Trullan Synod.

While the words " synod " and " council " usually refer to a transitory meeting, the term " Synod of Bishops " or " Synod of the Bishops ", is also applied to a permanent body established in 1965 as an advisory body of the Pope.

A few Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden, allows for the formation of political parties ( also known as nominating groups ()) to nominate candidates for the Synod ; it is an extension of the idea of multi-ideological democracy within the church.

The two agreed to take on the work and also took on a project for Family Films, owned by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, for ten short animated films based on the life of Christ.

Prior Lake also has a Lutheran church Missouri Synod parochial school, St.

Cresbard is also the home of an hotel and restaurant, museum, auto shop, oil supply company, insurance agency, a branch of Dacotah Bank, Senior Citizens center, two churches ( one Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and one Methodist ), and a local fire and rescue.

Dioceses are established by the Holy Synod whenever needed, and the Synod may also modify the boundaries of an existing diocese.

On the grounds of the cathedral, toward the south, are several buildings ( including a Synod Hall and the Cathedral School ), and a Biblical garden, as well as a large bronze work of public art by the cathedral's sculptor-in-residence, Greg Wyatt, known as the Peace Fountain, which has been both strongly praised and strongly criticized.

The dogmatical disputes raised during this Synod led to the Chalcedonian schism and as a matter of course to the formation of the non-Chalcedonian body of churches known as Oriental Orthodoxy.

Red Wing Seminary was the educational center for the Hauge's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod in America, commonly known as the Hauge Synod.

In 1845, the synod later known as the Lutheran Buffalo Synod was organized here.

The Remonstrants denied predestination and championed freedom of conscience, while their more dogmatic adversaries ( known as Contra-Remonstrants ) gained a major victory at the Synod of Dort ( 1618 – 19 ).

The " Old Party ", who continued with East Syrian and Latin theological and liturgical tradition and stayed faithful to the Synod of Diamper and the Roman Catholic Church came to be formally known as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church from the second half of the 19th century onward.

In 1917 the synods voted to turn their federation into a formal union, known as the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Wisconsin and Other States.

The Government, along with the Formularies and the By-laws of the General Synod are published annually in a volume known as The Book of Church Order.

In 1103 a major ecclesiastical congress known as the Ruis-Urbnisi Synod was held at the monasteries of Ruisi and Urbnisi.

In 1927, the Norwegian Synod of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church ( now known as the Evangelical Lutheran Synod ) purchased the campus for dual use as both a high school ( Bethany Lutheran High School ; closed in 1969 ) and junior college ( Bethany Lutheran College ).

This synodical meeting is not to be confused with the better known Second Synod of Dort of 1618, during which Arminians were expelled from the Church and the Canons of Dort were added to the Confessions.

A series of disputes, in 1747 over the burgesses oath, and in the late 18th century over the Westminster confession, led to further splits, but in 1820 two of the groups united to form the " United Associate Synod of the Secession Church ", also known as the United Secession Church.

In New England, he was a staunch opponent of the recommendations made by the Synod of 1662, known as the Half-Way Covenant, which proposed that the children of " half-way " members ( those who had been baptized as infants but who had not given evidence of a " conversion " and been admitted to full membership ) be allowed to receive baptism.

* Macarius I, head of the Holy Synod in 1879-1882 in Russia, better known as his church's leading historian.

He is best known both for his role in the Seminex controversy which roiled the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) in the mid-1970s, and for his efforts on behalf of Lutheran unity that resulted in the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ).