Having meanwhile become archbishop of Canterbury Courtenay summoned a synod, in London, the so-called " Earthquake Synod ", which condemned the opinions of Wycliffe ; he then attacked the Lollards at Oxford, and urged the bishops to imprison heretics.

Flavian urged that Eutyches should be called to the synod to defend himself, but Eutyches refused to come as he had vowed to remain in his monastery “ as though it were a tomb .” Eusebius pressed his accusation, saying that there were enough witnesses at the synod to confirm his accusations and condemn Eutyches, but Flavian repeatedly sent for Eutyches to come and ask forgiveness.

He called a synod in Rome in the year 341 to address the matter, and at that meeting Athanasius was found to be innocent of all the charges raised against him.

Since going into ecumenical communion with their respective Anglican body, bishops in the ELCA or the ELCIC not only approve the " rostering " of all ordained pastors, diaconal ministers, and associates in ministry, but they serve as the principal celebrant of all pastoral ordination and installation ceremonies, diaconal consecration ceremonies, as well as serving as the " chief pastor " of the local synod, upholding the teachings of Martin Luther as well as the documentations of the Ninety-Five Theses and the Augsburg Confession.

Dioscorus began the council by banning all members of the November 447 synod which had deposed Eutyches.

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 reached out to England when Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer called for an ecumenical synod of all the evangelical churches.

Now fully installed as pope, Sergius III proceeded to convoke a synod which now annulled all the ordinations of Formosus and demanded all bishops ordained by Formosus be re-ordained.

In 633 the same synod of Catholic bishops that usurped the Visigothic nobles ' right to confirm the election of a king declared that all Jews must be baptised.

* March 1 – During a synod in Rome, which is attended by 72 bishops and all of the Roman clergy, Pope Symmachus makes Antipope Laurentius bishop of the diocese of Nocera in Campania.

With the consent of all members of the Roman synod who met to depose him in July 964, Benedict was degraded to the rank of a deacon.

Theodore composed a series of letters in which he called on " all, near and far ," to revolt against the decision of the synod.

Regarding Italy, in a letter to the bishops of Campania, Picenum, and Tuscany ( 443 ) he required the observance of all his precepts and those of his predecessors ; and he sharply rebuked the bishops of Sicily ( 447 ) for their deviation from the Roman custom as to the time of baptism, requiring them to send delegates to the Roman synod to learn the proper practice.

Leo demanded of the emperor that an ecumenical council should be held in Italy, and in the meantime, at a Roman synod in October 449, repudiated all the decisions of the " Robber Synod ".

A synod was to be convened yearly by the Bishop of Arles, but all important matters were to be submitted to the Apostolic See.

In November 1184 Lucius held a synod at Verona which condemned the Cathars, Paterines, Waldensians and Arnoldists, and anathematized all those declared as heretics and their abettors.

On their return to Rome, they discovered that this was not at all what Nicholas had intended, and in 863 at a synod in Rome the pope deposed Photios, and reappointed Ignatius as the rightful patriarch.

* October – A Roman synod repudiates all the decisions of the Second Council of Ephesus.

Cornelius ’ s next action was to convene a synod of 60 bishops to restate himself as the rightful pope and the council excommunicated Novatian as well as all Novatianists.

In denominations too large for all the work of the denomination to be done by a single presbytery, the parishes may be divided into several presbyteries under synods and general assemblies, the synod being the lower court of the two.

Often all members of the constituent presbyteries are members of the synod.

Symmachus proceeded to call a synod, to be held at Rome on 1 March 499, which was attended by 72 bishops and all of the Roman clergy.

However some other churches do not use the synod at all, and the Church of Scotland dissolved its synods in the 1980s, see List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries.

Two years after this, in 749, at the synod of Gumley, Æthelbald issued a charter that freed ecclesiastical lands from all obligations except the requirement to build forts and bridges — obligations which lay upon everyone, as part of the trinoda necessitas.

He also lifted the policy of persecuting the local Catholics, allowing them to hold a synod wherein they elected a new Catholic bishop of Carthage, Eugenius, after a vacancy of 24 years.

In 1789 when the action of the " Catholic Committee " threatened seriously to compromise the English Catholics, Walmesley called a synod of his colleagues, and a decree was issued that the bishops of England " unanimously condemned the new form of oath intended for the Catholics, and declared it unlawful to be taken ".

In 1148 Saint Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh, arranged a synod on St. Patrick's island to settle differences between the Irish Christians and the Pope.

In 859, a synod met at Savonnières near Toul and tried to order Salomon to remember his oath of 852 and to resume paying the tribute which Brittany had paid in years past.

The numerous objections made by eminent scholars in past centuries to the ascription of these twenty-five canons to the synod in encaeniis have been elaborately stated and probably refuted by Hefele.

Evangelii Nuntiandi is an apostolic exhortation issued on 8 December 1975 by Pope Paul VI following the work of the synod on the theme ( of 7 September 1974 to 26 October 1980 ).

Stephen ’ s text has found more criticism, and Reginald Poole identified many of his inaccuracies, but Stephen's account of the synod did not suffer the same criticism as other passages in his work.

Groups of local churches are governed by a higher assembly of elders known as the presbytery or classis ; presbyteries can be grouped into a synod, and Presbyteries, along with synods nationwide often join together in a general assembly.

Alchfrith ’ s position in the royal house, together with his promotion of Wilfrid ( who would be the spokesperson for the Roman position at the synod ), has contributed to the view that he was instrumental in arranging his father ’ s convocation of the synod.

In 1748 he called together The Ministerium of Pennsylvania, the first permanent Lutheran synod in America.

There the synod of Ephesus was declared to have been a " robber synod ," its proceedings were annulled, and, in accordance with the more dyophysite ( two-nature ) strand in the teaching of Cyril of Alexandria, it was declared that the two natures are united in Christ ( without any alteration, absorption or confusion ) and ' come together to form one person and one hypostasis '.

Each congregation elects churchwardens and delegates who, together with the clergy, constitute the diocesan synod and annual Convocation.

He proposed that congregations in each state should unite to form an annual convention ( as opposed to a " convocation " or " synod ", terms which denote a body called together by a bishop ) of clergy and lay representatives of the congregations.

The Patriarch together with the synod of bishops has the legislative, judicial and administrative powers within jurisdictional territory of the patriarchal church, without prejudice to those powers reserved, in the common law to the Roman pontiff ( CCEO 55-150 ).

The synod at Croft held by Wiglaf in 836, which Beorhtwulf may have attended, was the last such conclave called together by a Mercian king.

These decrees were issued together with a pastoral letter of Bishop de ' Ricci, and were warmly approved by the grand-duke, at whose instance a national synod of the Tuscan bishops met at Florence on April 23, 1787.

The consolidation occurred as a result of synod officials finding it fiscally imprudent to have the two institutions so close together, the schools only some apart.

But synod officials felt it unwise fiscally having two institutions so close together, the college in Canton only roughly away.

Holy Sobor ( Church Slavonic: съборъ, " assembly ") is a council of bishops together with other clerical and lay delegates representing the church as a whole in matters of importance, equivalent to synod in the Western churches.

In 996 he was in the retinue of the king on his journey to Italy, together with Otto III he pushed the election of Pope Gregory V against the resistance of the Roman nobility led by Crescentius the Younger and was present at the consecration and at the synod convened a few days later.

Yearly, by demand of the ELCA constitution, the synod meets together with all rostered leaders ( clergy, associates in ministry, deacons, deaconesses, diaconal ministers ) as well as up to two representatives from each congregation ( more for larger congregations ) for Synod Assembly.