synod 的定义
- an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
- any council.
synod 近义词
council
更多synod例句
- Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination.
- For such an historic change to the church, a two-thirds majority was required in all three Houses of the General Synod.
- But those who followed the last synod on the family in 1980 are far from impressed.
- To celebrate together, after 17centuries, the first truly ecumenical synod.
- At Paris a numerous synod was assembled, in which it was voted that Gregory ought not here to be obeyed.
- The Swedes and Germans were Lutherans, but each nationality was of a different synod and had little agreement or fellowship.
- About this time the Council, or rather synod, of Trent closed its sittings, and published its decrees to the whole of Christendom.
- In theory each congregation had the power to send a deputy to the Provincial Synod; in fact, only a few ever used the privilege.
- He presided over the Pan-Anglican Synod in 1867, and in 1868 succeeded to the archbishopric.