Conservative traditions have always been strong in the Lutheran synods of North America.

In later life Paulinus, by then a highly respected church authority, participated in multiple church synods investigating various ecclesiastical controversies of the time, including Pelagianism.

In the early years of the 19th century, the church carried on revivals and organized congregations, presbyteries, and synods wherever pastors and lay people went, emphasizing the connectional nature of the church.

There are 48 elected members of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board ( 40 voting members ; 17 non-voting delegates ), who represent synods, presbyteries, and the church at-large.

Presbyterianism is also distinct from congregationalism, in that individual congregations are not independent, but are answerable to the wider church, through its governing bodies ( presbyteries, synods and assemblies ).

* Diocesan synods are irregular meetings of the clergy and laity of a particular church summoned by the diocesan bishop ( or other prelate if the particular church is not a diocese ) to deliberate on legislative matters.

Governor William Bradford in 1648 referred to synods of a separatist church as " classical meetings " in his Dialogue, a report of a meeting between New-England-born " young men " and " ancient men " from Holland and England.

Theodore conducted a survey of the English church, appointed various bishops to sees that had been vacant for some time, and then called the Synod of Hertford to institute reforms concerning the proper celebration of Easter, episcopal authority, itinerant monks, the regular convening of subsequent synods, marriage and prohibitions of consanguinity, and others.

I wish it to sit again, only for the purpose of synodically devising a better synod than itself ; one, more like the synods of the early church – in one house, with less of power to the Presbyters – but more means of counsel and aid from them to the Bishops than their separate house gives.

" Idolatry ," < cite > Lutheran Witness </ cite > 1 No. 6: 43 .</ ref > He also advocated practicing church fellowship only with those Lutheran congregations whose synods were in complete doctrinal agreement with the Synod.

The German Christians won handily ( 70 – 80 % of all seats in presbyteries and synods ), except within four regional churches and one provincial body of the united old-Prussian church: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria right of the river Rhine, the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hanover, Evangelical Reformed State Church of the Province of Hanover the Lutheran Evangelical State Church in Württemberg, and in the old-Prussian ecclesiastical province of Westphalia, where the German Christians gained no majorities.

Hilarius was deprived of his rights to consecrate bishops, call synods, or oversee the church in the province, and the pope secured the edict of Valentinian III, so important in the history of the Gallican church, ut episcopis Gallicanis omnibusque pro lege esset quidquid apostolicae sedis auctoritas sanxisset.

They discussed various points of doctrine, writing an agreement recognizing the Missouri and Wisconsin synods as orthodox Lutheran church bodies and that they have pulpit and altar fellowship together.

Doctrinal differences among the synods of the Synodical Conference, especially concerning the doctrine and practice of church fellowship, surfaced during the 1940s and ' 50s.

* There had been no church synods for at least eighty years ;

Many of the Concilium's measures were geared toward a stricter organization of the Frankish church, and to enforce such organization annual synods were called for, as well as real bishops and archbishops and the enforcement of canon law.

The church body is in communion with some member synods of the International Lutheran Council ( e. g., the LCMS ).

Aycliffe was the location of a church synods in AD 782 and AD 789.

The Orthodox have synods where the highest authorities in each Church community are brought together, but unlike Roman Catholicism no central individual or figure has the absolute and infallible last word on church doctrine.

Located at the crossroads of several important trade routes and site of an imperial residence since Charlemagne, Fritzlar was a frequent site of royal visits and of assemblies and synods of the German princes and church leaders during the early Middle Ages.

It is one of a number of pre-ecumenical ancient church councils and synods.

The debates among these groups resulted in numerous synods, among them the Council of Sardica in 343, the Council of Sirmium in 358 and the double Council of Rimini and Seleucia in 359, and no fewer than fourteen further creed formulas between 340 and 360, leading the pagan observer Ammianus Marcellinus to comment sarcastically: " The highways were covered with galloping bishops.

The disciplinary sections received official recognition at provincial synods and were enforced by the bishops.

According to Eusebius, a number of synods were convened to deal with the controversy, which he regarded as all ruling in support of Easter on Sunday.

Three other synods on the subject were held, at the second of which the followers of Barlaam gained a brief victory.

Three national synods were held during his pontificate at Naples under Alfonso Cardinal Caraffa ( whose family had, after inquiry, been reinstated by Pius V ), at Milan under Saint Charles Borromeo, and at Machim.

Eugene held synods in northern Europe at Paris, Rheims, and Trier in 1147 and 1149 that were devoted to the reform of clerical life.

After nine years of debate, in 1565, the anti-Trinitarians were excluded from the existing synod of the Polish Reformed Church ( henceforth the Ecclesia maior ) and they began to hold their own synods as the Ecclesia minor.

Several synods of minor importance were held there, and its university, founded by Pope Boniface VIII in 1303 and famed as a seat of legal studies, flourished until the French Revolution.

Other synods were also held at Milan and at the Council of Hatfield in 680, convoked by Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury.

Originally synods were meetings of bishops, and the word is still used in that sense in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Six or seven synods, for instance, were held under St. Cyprian's presidency during the decade of his administration ( 249-258 ), and more than fifteen under Aurelius ( 391-429 ).

They took decisions on the disciplinary measures which regulated the elections, on the celebration of divine service, on the periodical holding of diocesan synods and provincial councils, which were usual topics in Catholic councils.

The Gospel of Peter (), or Gospel according to Peter, is one of the non-Canonical gospels which were rejected by the Church Fathers and the Catholic Church's synods of Carthage and Rome, which established the New Testament canon, as apocryphal.

The ELCA's three predecessor churches were themselves the product of previous mergers and splits among various independent Lutheran synods in the United States.

These state synods were to organize into two or three larger synods, one for the east ( corresponding to the Ohio Synod ), one for the southwest ( corresponding to the Missouri Synod ), and one for the northwest ( which would include all congregations in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and all parts west ).

This formed three larger synods, which solved the longstanding concern that if either the Missouri or Ohio synods were allowed to keep their identity, they would dominate the rest of the Synodical Conference, or, even worse, the Minnesota or Wisconsin Synods would be forced to join one of them.

This new organization did not apply to congregations speaking Norwegian, and English speaking congregations were to organize as separate district synods within one of the three larger synods

Macedonius held the see for about six years, while letters and delegates, the pope and the emperors, synods and counter-synods, were debating and disputing the treatment of Paul and Athanasius.

They presided over synods of bishops, and were granted special privileges by canon law and sacred tradition.

Actium belonged originally to the Corinthian colonists of Anactorium, who probably founded the worship of Apollo Actius and the Actia games ; in the 3rd century BC it fell to the Acarnanians, who subsequently held their synods there.

The ecumenical councils are seen as traditional and as a continuation of previous councils or synods, which had already been held in the Empire before Christianity was made legal.

As legate he presided over several synods on reform, the most important of which was held at Bourges in September 1276.

At the outset, he had to reckon with the presence of the powerful antipope Clement III in Rome, but a series of well-attended synods held in Rome, Amalfi, Benevento, and Troia supported him in renewed declarations against simony, Investiture Controversy, clerical marriages, and continued opposition to Emperor Henry IV.

The plan was an ideal of what a well-designed and well-supplied monastery should have, as envisioned by one of the synods held at Aachen for the reform of monasticism in the Frankish empire during the early years of emperor Louis the Pious ( between 814 and 817 ).

Leo held three synods, one in 850 that was distinguished by the presence of Holy Roman Emperor Louis II, but the other two of little importance.

A subsequent letter of Boniface's to Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, provided a good deal of information about Frankish synods, especially one held in 747, the decrees of which Boniface included in the letter.

One of the earliest visual representations of the claustral plan is the Carolingian plan of St. Gall, a copy made at Reichenau of a scheme worked out at the two reforming synods held at Aachen, 816 and 817.

With a view to diminish the violence of faction in Rome, John held several synods in Rome and elsewhere in 898.

Siscia's bishop from the region Pannonia joined the Dalmatian bishops on the synods held in Salona in the years 530 and 533 as a member with full rights.

Numerous synods were held by the bishops of Elne: That of 1027 in Toulouges upheld the Peace and Truce of God, that no one should attack his enemy from Saturday at nine o ' clock to Monday at one.

Further synods were held in 1058, 1114, 1335, 1337, 1338, 1339, 1340, and 1380 ( CE ).

Some of the older baptisteries were very large, so large that we hear of councils and synods being held in them.

Numerous synods held in France in the sixth and seventh centuries passed decrees against this abuse of church property.

Various synods of the ninth century passed decrees against this custom ; the Synod of Diedenhofen ( October, 844 ) decreed in its third canon, that abbeys should no longer remain in the power of laymen, but that monks should be their abbots In like manner the Synods of Meaux and Paris ( 845-846 ) complained that the monasteries held by laymen had fallen into decay, and emphasized the king's duty in this respect.

The Council of Orléans may refer to any of several synods held in Orléans:

Most of the synods and other important meetings were held at St. Alban's Abbey.