| In occasional diocesan synods, they harangued their clergy and issued reforming regulations. |
| This isn't to say that synods, canon laws and rubrics don't play an important role in our common life. |
| Here the dean and chapter met for the transaction of their capitular affairs, and here the bishop held his synods. |
| Financial matters also garnered debate at assemblies, as synods looked at declining budgets and ministry. |
| The bishops met in the synods that were convoked from the second century onwards. |
| And before they vote at church synods on such issues as allowing divorcees to remarry at Anglican altars they must have watched it for six months, he declares. |
