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 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.

The first council that accepted the present canon of the New Testament may have been the Synod of Hippo Regius in North Africa ( AD 393 ); the acts of this council, however, are lost.

All three Johannine epistles were recognised by the 39th festal letter of Athanasius, the Synod of Hippo and the Council of Carthage.

* Synod of Hippo: A council at Hippo Regius ( Algeria ) is hosted by the Christian Church.

* Synod of Hippo 393

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

At the Synod of Hippo ( 393 ), and again at the Synod of 397 at Carthage, a list of the books of Holy Scripture was drawn up, which survives to the current day as the Catholic canon ( including some books considered apocrypha by Protestants ).

* Synod of Hippo

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 the burning of the crosses that Aldebert had set up in the countryside.

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

This congregation / presbytery / synod / general assembly schema is based on the historical structure of the larger Presbyterian churches, such as the Church of Scotland or the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .); some bodies, such as the Presbyterian Church in America and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, skip one of the steps between congregation and General Assembly, and usually the step skipped is the Synod.

For the crime of general perturbation in the state of the nation, both in Church and State ( treason ), he was beheaded on 13 May 1619, only four days after the final meeting of the Synod.

The metropolitan is elected, when necessary, by the Holy Synod at an All-American Council ( a general council of OCA clergy and laity ).

Konstantinovsky ( 2009 ) states that the uses of apocatastasis in Christian writings prior to the Synod of Constantinople ( 543 ) and the anathema ( 553 ) pronounced against " Origenists " and Evagrius Ponticus were neutral and referred primarily to concepts similar to the general " restoration of all things spoken " ( restitutio omnium quae locutus est Deus ) of Peter in Acts 3: 21 and not for example the universal reconciliation of all souls which had ever been.

In 1484, 31 years after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, a Synod of Constantinople repudiated the Union of Florence, making official the position that had already been taken by Orthodox in general.

In terms of polity, the PCT has a general assembly, and only one synod ( the Northern Synod ); the presbyteries in the south of the island connect directly to the general assembly.

It was one of three councils, together with the Synod of Arles and the Synod of Ancyra, that first approached the character of general councils and prepared the way for the first ecumenical council.

The doctrine is one of the so-called Five points of Calvinism that were defined at the Synod of Dort during the Quinquarticular Controversy with the Arminian Remonstrants, who objected to the general predestinarian scheme of Calvinism.

and his appointment as head of the school might have been in line with a general uneasiness with the radical decrees of the Synod of Beth Lapat.

He took Holy Orders in 1941 and became secretary general of the Holy Synod in 1955 and titular bishop of Branit on December 30, 1956.

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

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

In 1618 / 1619, an important religious meeting took place in Dordrecht, called the Synod of Dordrecht.

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.

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

The first meeting of the South Carolina Lutheran Synod was in the house of John Eigleberger, who lived in Pomaria.

It usually meets twice per year, but in December 2006 a rare joint meeting between the Metropolitan Council and the Holy Synod of Bishops was held.

In October 1967, a meeting of the Synod of Bishops had already given its opinion on a still earlier draft.

A meeting of all priests in a Synod had to be postponed at the wish of the Vatican considering ongoing changes in Canon Law.

St. Paul's in Chicago, where the first meeting of the Missouri Synod was held.

The change had initially been discussed by the Synod in 1963, but the motion did not pass, meeting by heavy opposition and remaining controversial to this day.

Meeting house of the Evangelical Dahlem Congregation, Berlin Plaque commemorating the second Reich Synod of Confession on the outside wall of the meeting house, Dahlem

For a summary of Congregationalism in Scotland see the paper presented to a joint meeting of the ministers of the United Reformed Church Synod and the Congregational Federation in Scotland by Rev'd A Paterson follow the link Congregationalism in Scotland

It has been suggested that Hitchin was the location of < em > Clofeshoh </ em >, the place chosen in 673 by Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus during the Synod of Hertford, the first nationwide meeting of representatives of the fledgling Catholic churches of Anglo-Saxon England, to hold annual synods of the churches as Theodore attempted to consolidate and centralise Catholicism in England.

When a Synod of bishops meets, a Gospel Book is often enthroned in a prominent place to show that Christ Himself presides over the meeting.

When Derek Pattinson retired as Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England in 1990, a choir sang a variation on the Major-General's Song, with the line " He was the very model of a Secretary-General ", in a meeting of the General Synod.

This name was chosen to honor a historic 17th century Reformed church meeting called the Synod of Dordt that took place in the Netherlands in 1618-19.

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.

* Synod of bishops ( Orthodox ), a meeting at which bishops are elected and inter-diocesan laws are established

In 1872 he was elected moderator of the United Presbyterian Synod and represented his church in Paris at the first meeting of the Reformed Synod of France.