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

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

The Synod of Dort ( also known as the Synod of Dordt or the Synod of Dordrecht ) was a National Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618 – 1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy initiated by the rise of Arminianism.

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 ".

Deemed a heretic by the Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325, Arius was later exonerated in 335 at the regional First Synod of Tyre, and then, after his death, pronounced a heretic again at the Ecumenical First Council of Constantinople of 381.

Angilbert delivered the document on Iconoclasm from the Frankish Synod of Frankfurt to Pope Adrian I, and was later sent on three important embassies to the pope, in 792, 794 and 796.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

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

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 General Synod and the College of Bishops of Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui planned to publish a unified version for the use of all Anglican churches in China in 1949, which was the 400th anniversary of the first publishing of the Book of Common Prayer.

Among other things the General Synod agreed that the Book of Common Prayer was to ' be regarded as the authorised standard of worship and doctrine in this Church ...'.

Some proposed that the Synod of Bishops should perform this function, a proposal that was not accepted, because, among other reasons, the Synod of Bishops can only meet when called by the pope.

The Evangelical and Reformed Church was the result of a partial union of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America ( a union of Lutherans and Reformed ).

The person who caught Cyril was Acacius who insisted Cyril report the sale to the Synod.

When he would not, the Synod of Alexandria met in an emergency session and a unanimous agreement was reached.

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.

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

In the Church of England, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 ( replacing the Church Assembly ), is the legislative body of the Church.

The tsar's most influential adviser was Konstantin Pobedonostsev, tutor to Alexander III and his son Nicholas, and procurator of the Holy Synod from 1880 to 1895.

The African Synod of Hippo, in 393, approved the New Testament, as it stands today, together with the Septuagint books, a decision that was repeated by Councils of Carthage in 397 and 419.

Nonetheless, a full dogmatic articulation of the canon was not made until the 1546 Council of Trent for Roman Catholicism, the 1563 Thirty-Nine Articles for the Church of England, the 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith for Calvinism, and the 1672 Synod of Jerusalem for Greek Orthodoxy.

He held lay positions in, and was a member of, the Synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

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

During the consultations on 21 May an earthquake occurred ; the participants were terrified and wished to break up the assembly, but Courtenay declared the earthquake a favorable sign which meant the purification of the earth from erroneous doctrine, and the result of the " Earthquake Synod " was assured.

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.

In 1155, three years after the Synod of Kells, Adrian IV published the Papal Bull ' Laudabiliter ', which was addressed to the Angevin King Henry II of England.

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.

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.

The offices of President of Assembly, Moderator of Synod ( who chair these councils ), and other such offices are open to all members of the UCA, whether lay or ordained, male or female.

However, some pastors in the Wisconsin Synod agreed with the " open questions " position of the Iowa synod that some doctrines could be left unresolved and good Lutherans could agree to disagree about them.

Hincmar of Laon refused to recognize the authority of his metropolitan, and entered into an open struggle with his uncle, who exposed his errors in a treatise called Opusculum LV capitulorum, and procured his condemnation and deposition at the Synod of Douzy ( 871 ).

July 9, 2009 at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church it was decided to open in Kiev the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Desyatynnyi monastery and appoint as governor Gideon Archimandrite ( Charon ).

He especially criticized General Synod for lacking these, claiming that their leaders, for example, Samuel Simon Schmucker, were apostate " open counterfeiters, Calvinists, Methodists, and Unionists ... traitors and destroyers of the Lutheran Church ".