A Diocesan synod is a meeting in the Catholic church of various people in a diocese. Diocesan synods are called by the bishop, and are used to discuss...

Orthodox churches. Similarly, the day-to-day governance of patriarchal and major archiepiscopal Eastern Catholic Churches is entrusted to a permanent synod. In...

Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, commonly referred to as the Synod on Synodality, is an ongoing synod of bishops of the Catholic Church which will conclude...

In the Catholic Church, the Synod of Bishops, considered as an advisory body for the pope, is one of the ways in which the bishops render cooperative assistance...

and laity of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain). It was the first diocesan synod in the history of this...

Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East...

The Synod of Ráth Breasail (or Rathbreasail; Irish: Sionad Ráth Bhreasail) was a synod of the Catholic Church in Ireland that took place in Ireland in...

The Synod of Pistoia was a 1786 diocesan synod in the Catholic diocese of Pistoia, then part of the territory of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It was convoked...

Eastern Orthodox churches and Eastern Catholic Churches, the patriarch or head bishop is elected by a group of bishops called the Holy Synod. For instance...

and inter-diocesan laws are established Synod of bishops of any church This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Synod of Bishops...

Holy Synod of Bishops, composed of all the church's diocesan bishops. The ex officio chairman of the Holy Synod is the metropolitan. The Holy Synod meets...

legate for Pope Clement XII. The synod drafted a Code of Canons for the Maronite Church and created the first regular diocesan structure. The Council of Luwayza...

general synod to be the sixth prime bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church. In 2010, Anthony Mikovsky was elected by the twenty-third general synod to...

a stricter uniformity in the Western Church was enforced, with the diocesan structure introduced with the Synod of Ráth Breasail in 1111 and culminating...

whole church (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 886). Within the Catholic Church the following posts have similarities to that of a diocesan bishop...

and Belfast. The church has disciplinary and appeals tribunals, and diocesan courts, and a court of the general synod. The Church of Ireland experienced...

ecclesiastical legal system. For example, diocesan bishops are ordinaries in the Catholic Church and the Church of England. In Eastern Christianity, a corresponding...

there are Diocesan Synods and deanery synods, which are the governing bodies of the divisions of the Church.[citation needed] Of the 42 diocesan archbishops...

in their General Synod of 1975 and General Convention of 1976), have departed from Christ's One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. In January 1978...

some of which dated back fifty years. Diocesan officials and academics knowledgeable about the Catholic Church say that sexual abuse by clergy is generally...

Nordic Catholic Church (NCC; Norwegian: den nordisk-katolske kirke), formerly known as the Lutheran Free Synod of Norway, is an Old Catholic church body...

expressed in the Diocesan Vision made during the synod. As a diocesan thrust, the NEP would be implemented in all parishes and mission churches in the diocese...

orders. Diocesan bishops—known as eparchial bishops in the Eastern Catholic Churches—are assigned to govern local regions within the Catholic Church known...

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide...

bodies – the General Synod, the Provincial Synod (there are four in Canada) and the diocesan synods (there are 29). The national church in Canada is structured...

Romanian Greek Catholic Church or Romanian Church United with Rome is a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church, in full union with the Catholic Church. It has the...

additional synod was also held in 1978 in Coshocton, Ohio. Bishop Doren became bishop of the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States, and at the diocesan synod held...

The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the highest Orthodox authority in the Coptic Orthodox Church. It formulates the rules and...

In the Catholic Church, an exemption is the full or partial release of an ecclesiastical person, corporation, or institution from the authority of the...

as bishops; others are still as deacons only. The Anglican Church of Australia General Synod legislated that women could be ordained as deacons (1985)...