The Synod of Hippo of 393 ordered a general meeting yearly, but this was found too onerous for the bishops, and in the Synod of Carthage ( 407 ) it was decided to hold a general synod only when necessary for the needs of all Africa, and it was to be held at a place most convenient for the purpose.

At the Synod of Hippo ( 393 ) it was ordered that " dignities " should be sent from each ecclesiastical province.

In 529 the Second Synod of Vasio in Gaul ( modern ( Vaison ) said in its fifth canon that the second part of the doxology, with the words Sicut erat in principio, was used in Rome, the East, and Africa, and ordered it to be said likewise in Gaul.

In December 897, Pope Theodore II ( 897 ) convened a synod that annulled the Cadaver Synod, rehabilitated Formosus, and ordered that his body, which had been recovered from the Tiber, be reburied in Saint Peter's Basilica in pontifical vestments.

In 898, John IX ( 898 — 900 ) also nullified the Cadaver Synod, convening two synods ( one in Rome, one in Ravenna ) which confirmed the findings of Theodore II's synod, ordered the acta of the Cadaver Synod destroyed, and prohibited any future trial of a dead person.

This translation formed the starting point for the Statenvertaling or " States ' Translation ", a full Bible translation into Dutch ordered by the Synod.

In 1281 the Synod of Lambeth, England, ordered priests to explain these truths of faith four times a year.

In Germany it was ordered by a Synod of Mainz in 813.

The Synod ordered his writings ( his approved biography, his prayer, and his supposed letter from Jesus ) to be burned.

In 1184, the Roman Catholic Synod of Verona legislated that burning was to be the official punishment for heresy.

A century later, the Anonymous of Mainz wrote that Aldebert had been condemned and desposed at a Synod at Mainz ( which may have been the council that Pope Zachary had called for ), and that afterwards he was imprisoned for blasphemy in the monastery of Fulda ,.

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.

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.

The Coptic Orthodox Church refused to recognize the election and enthronement of Abuna Takla Haymanot on the grounds that the Synod of the Ethiopian Church had not removed Abuna Theophilos, and that the Ethiopian government had not publicly acknowledged his death, and he was thus still legitimate Patriarch of Ethiopia.

The Presbyterian Synod had suspended his ministerial credentials.

He had been present in the Lateran Synod of 1112 which had proclaimed the Privilegium of 1111.

* Cadaver Synod, in 897, when Pope Stephen VI had the corpse of Pope Formosus disinterred and put on trial.

Although the Synod of 731 had adjudicated in this matter in favour of Grado, Gregory was forced to reprimand the Patriarch of Aquileia, Calixtus, who had attempted to gain possession of the Island of Barbana from Grado ’ s jurisdiction.

Confirming his continued support of the anti-Formosus faction, Sergius honoured the murdered Pope Stephen VI ( 896 – 897 ), who had been responsible for the " Cadaver Synod " that had condemned and mutilated the corpse of Pope Formosus, writing a laudatory epitaph on Stephen VI's tombstone.

For centuries it was believed that Sergius then had the much-abused corpse of Formosus exhumed once more, tried, found guilty again, and beheaded, thus in effect conducting a second Cadaver Synod.

Sergius reportedly had the much-abused corpse of Formosus exhumed once more, tried, found guilty again, and beheaded, thus in effect conducting a second Cadaver Synod: although Joseph Brusher, S. J.

In 2008, Turner explained he not only regretted these statements but said he had made peace with organized religion and had joined with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the United Methodist Church to fight malaria.

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

However, as the previous 30 years since the approval of icon-veneration at the Synod of 787 had represented for the Byzantines a string of military catastrophes, Leo resolved to reach back to the policies of the more successful Isaurian dynasty.

At that time the " mainline " Protestant denominations weakened sharply in both membership and influence while the most conservative religious denominations ( such as the Southern Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans ) grew rapidly in numbers, spread across the United States, had grave internal theological battles and schisms, and became politically powerful.

At the request of the Special Assembly for the Americas of the Synod of Bishops, he named Our Lady of Guadalupe patron of the Americas on 22 January 1999 ( with the result that her liturgical celebration had, throughout the Americas, the rank of solemnity ), and visited the shrine again on the following day.

Henry instead appointed Poppo, Bishop of Brixen in Tyrol, a proud man of distinguished learning who had taken part in the Synod of Sutri.

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

The two archbishops, Günther of Cologne and Thietgaud of Trier, who had come to Rome as delegates, were summoned before the Lateran Synod of October 863, when the pope condemned and deposed them as well as John of Ravenna and Hagano of Bergamo.

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

In 1603 Asunción was the seat of the First Synod of Asunción, which set guidelines for the evangelization of the natives in their lingua franca, Guaraní.

The Synod concluded with a rejection of the Arminian views, and set forth the Reformed doctrine on each point, namely: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement ( arguing the efficacy of Christ's atoning work was applicable only to the elect and not the unregenerate world ), irresistible ( or irrevocable ) grace, and the perseverance of the saints.

The Convocations still exist but legal power now rests with the General Synod set up in the 1970s.

Its boundaries were set at the Synod of Kells in 1152, which covered roughly the western part of the Kingdom of Meath with the diocesan bishop's seat ( cathedra ) located at Clonard Abbey.

In 1833 the Greek Parliament formally rejected the patriarch's authority and set up a Holy Directing Synod in exact imitation of Russia.

He and two other ministers set up the Synod of New South Wales ( the second of this name ) on 3 April 1850, although the minutes term it The Australian Presbyterian Church.

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.

In 1992, the General Synod of the church set up five hui amorangi, or regional bishoprics, to serve under the Bishop of Aotearoa.

This set the stage for the Uniting General Synod, which took place in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 25, 1957 ; the CC Churches were represented by the Rev.

The supporters of the Free Church in Ottawa and environs, set up Knox Free Church in 1844, just after the Church of Scotland's Canadian Synod in Kingston was split.

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.