| There are also groups, communities, conferences, assemblies, synods, and councils which deliberate more socially and often officially. |
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| In occasional diocesan synods, they harangued their clergy and issued reforming regulations. |
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| The bishops met in the synods that were convoked from the second century onwards. |
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| Financial matters also garnered debate at assemblies, as synods looked at declining budgets and ministry. |
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| This isn't to say that synods, canon laws and rubrics don't play an important role in our common life. |
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| 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. |
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| He made regular provincial visitations and held frequent synods. |
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| Both dioceses and provinces hold synods, usually annually, consisting of the active diocesan clergy and lay delegates elected by parish churches. |
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| As with the moderators of synods and assemblies, the moderatorship is a primus inter pares position appointed by the presbytery itself. |
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| Churches with an episcopal polity are governed by bishops, practicing their authorities in the dioceses and conferences or synods. |
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| It apparently collects the results of several early synods, and represents an era when pagans were still a major force in Ireland. |
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| Diocesan synods are convened by a bishop in his or her diocese, and consist of elected clergy and lay members. |
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| Above them stood a dozen or so synods and at the apex the general assembly. |
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| There are also synods of the CCC in every province of the Congo, known appropriately as provincial synods. |
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| They presided over synods of bishops, and were granted special privileges by canon law and sacred tradition. |
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| It placed church supervision fully in the hands of groups of elected church leaders, in presbyteries, synods and the general assembly. |
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| The Huguenots added synods whose members were also elected by the congregations. |
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| Additionally, there are Diocesan Synods and deanery synods, which are the governing bodies of the divisions of the Church. |
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| The synods are represented along with the convenors of the Assembly's standing committees. |
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| The Imperium Christianum was further supported at a number of synods all across the Europe by Paulinus of Aquileia. |
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| National, provincial, and diocesan synods maintain different scopes of authority, depending on their canons and constitutions. |
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| A Church of England conference held in Winnipeg in August 1890 established the union of all synods. |
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| In time bishops came to be appointed locally rather than from England and eventually national synods began to pass ecclesiastical legislation independent of England. |
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| Like the commissioners to presbyteries, the commissioners to synods do not act on instruction from their congregations or presbyteries, but exercise their own judgement. |
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| Later ecclesiastical synods require that letters under the bishop's seal should be given to priests when for some reason they lawfully quit their own proper diocese. |
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| 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. |
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| Diocesan synods elect lay and clergy delegates to provincial synod. |
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| In the Anglican Communion, synods are elected by clergy and laity. |
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| However some other churches do not use the synod at all, and the Church of Scotland dissolved its synods in 1993, see List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries. |
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| From the second half of the second century, the bishops of these provinces were accustomed to assemble on important occasions for common counsel in synods. |
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| In Romanian Orthodox Church there are six regional metropolitans who are the chairmen of their respective synods of bishops, and have special duties and privileges. |
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| The Reformed Episcopal Church was originally divided into four synods. |
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| A number of synod delegates reported that at synods in the past, curial cardinals would go around telling the bishops what topics could not be discussed. |
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| Synods make many key decisions about finance, and about church property, which is usually held in trust by a synod trust company. |
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| Synods have committees and employ staff to encourage and serve local churches. |
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| Formerly there were also Synods at regional level, with authority over a group of presbyteries, but these have been abolished. |
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| A communion of autocephalous churches, each typically governed by Holy Synods, its bishops are equal by virtue of ordination, with doctrines summarised in the Nicene Creed. |
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| General Synods of other churches within the Anglican Communion. |
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