Sentence examples for a synod is made from inspiring English sources

A synod is made up of several presbyteries.

The synod was made up overwhelmingly of pastors like Francis, who have agreed to review a whole series of practices and changes.

The House of Laity is the largest element of the general synod and is made up of lay members of the Church elected by its 44 dioceses.

A synod was then assembled and the chronicle records that the marriage was nullified.

The Presbytery upheld two of the three main complaints, but an appeal was made to the Synod.

I was waiting to watch the general synod from a public gallery as history was made.

Most of the discussion within the synod centred on the provision being made to ensure that opponents of the change could, in good conscience, remain within the Church by having access to a male bishop.

The Steering Committee on the legislation has said it hopes important progress can be made at this synod session, with a view to possibly getting women bishops approved in 2014.

This appointment was the soonest that could possibly be made after the synod finally allowed women to become bishops in July this year.

In a synod convened in 325, the metropolitan see of Ctesiphon was made supreme over other sees in the Sāsānian empire, and the first patriarch or catholicos was Papa.

After the meeting in 948 of a synod at Ingelheim, at which Pope Agapetus II reinstated Artauld, Flodoard was made keeper of the records at Reims.