Sentence examples for from synod from inspiring English sources
Ultimately, he chose a middle course, censuring the congregation, an action that bars its members from synod boards and committees.
The news from Synod is that the Church of England may begin to consecrate women bishops in the next few years, with little provision for those who feel less comfortable with the idea.
She has been out walking Watson, the younger of their two cairn terriers (Plowright, the other, has been in the office, keeping the Bishop company), and she has dropped by for a brief midday chat with her husband, or perhaps just to see him, before returning to their residence, a short distance from Synod House.
Under pressure from the Synod, Jonah resigned as metropolitan in July 2012.
The next evening a very different sound wafted from the Synod Hall at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine: a sitar gliding up a scale, as discreet as that singer had been bold.
Pell and Douthat represent a small minority of the laity, and a minority even of bishops, as the voting figures from the synod show, but it is substantial, determined and potentially very well-funded.
A number of cross-party parliamentarians in both houses are making it clear that they will not vote into the law any measure from General Synod which discriminates against women.
You could probably describe England as a secular state that identifies itself as Christian — after which you would have to ask: Why was secular England so shaken by the news from the Synod that even the conservative Prime Minister took it upon himself to tell the Church of England to "get on with it"?
No one expects answers to emerge fully formed from this synod, Francis's first, which the church says is part of a process of discussion and "discernment" that he hopes will continue for at least another year, when another gathering will be held.
The fallout from the Synod of Dort was disastrous for the tolerant Arminians.
The motion will now go before Parliament's ecclesiastical committee, which examines measures from the Synod.
