1. Should the General Synod vote women into the priesthood?

2. The General Synod accused broadcasters of dumbing down religious programmes.

3. The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests.

4. After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation.

5. Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!

6. The church of Ireland still has one all-island synod, the presbyterians a single general assembly, the methodists one conference.

7. We pray for the general synod as it meets shortly, for wise decisions and clear leadership.

8. Disturbed bishops gathered in synod at Antioch to express their disapproval.

9. It often appears in general Synod with some unspoken assumptions about the text of the Bible.

10. He allowed that others had proposed the Roman synod and the revision of the Code of Canon Law.

11. A synod or convention back in 1662 found the majority of ministers ready to compromise.

12. In this way the Synod will help develop closer collaboration between religious, lay people and priests.

13. The Council of the African Synod is a grouping of bishops from 16 African nations.

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14. The General Synod could consider laying down salary scales for church musicians, as it does in respect of parochial fees.

15. A large minority of bishops at a 1980 synod on the family, meanwhile, asked that the encyclical be reconsidered.

16. The aim of the Synod consisted in enabling the church to get rid of the control of the foreign mission, and thereby to establish and develop indigenousness and united church in its proper sense.

17. Around 70% of the church's 250-strong synod, or church board, voted to back the move, making it one of few global churches to allow gay marriage.

18. The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed concern at the refusal of some clergy to accept the vote of the Synod.

19. Are there any other important aspects concerning Religious Life which should receive attention during the Synod?

20. As a retreat conductor, preacher and speaker for religious communities in the Assembly and the Synod he had few rivals.

21. Convocation, by 1327 no longer confusable with parliament, was assimilated to the clergy's own provincial synod.

22. Thus, tired of being the poor and comparatively impotent relation, General Synod is now chafing at the bit.

23. The proposal will be debated in dioceses before being returned to the synod for final approval in 1991.

24. There were only a few dozen synagogues and fewer rabbis, yet the synod took two decades to convene.

25. The statement was issued by leading bishops following an emergency meeting of the Holy Synod in Belgrade.

26. A two-thirds majority is needed in each house of the General Synod when voting takes place next Wednesday.

27. A decision on the ordination of women priests will be taken by the General Synod in November.

28. In 1930, the Southern Presbytery was reorganized as the Southern Synod, and that the four aforementioned regional churches became "Presbyteries".

29. Under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 a Measure of the General Synod of the Church of England becomes law once it has received Royal Assent in the same way as an Act of Parliament.

30. In the year 664, only a few decades before Eadfrith sat down with pen in hand, there had been a big meeting now known as the Synod of Whitby.

31. Swapping pleasantries, two cardinals prepare to enter the Synod Hall for a consistory, an assembly of cardinals that advises the pope.

32. A clerical assembly of the Anglican Church similar to a synod but assembling only when called.

33. The first French Huguenot community was founded in 1546, and the confession of faith drawn up by the first synod in 1559 was influenced by the ideas of John Calvin.

34. The church condemns suicide and has banned church burials for those who take their lives, " said a spokesman for the Holy Synod, the church ruling body."

35. He will hold an open-air mass in the capital Yaounde and he'll outline the program for a Synod on Africa to be held later this year. Our religious affairs correspondent Christopher Landau reports.

36. He was one of the four mainland prelates who were invited by the pope to the World Synod of Bishops in 2005, although he was unable to attend.

37. However, while missionaries and Chinese synodical leaders had often spoken of how the Chinese synod is independent, no formal acknowledgment of this had been made.

38. He repaired, however, the public scandal he had given by a sincere retractation made in the presence of Pope Gregory VII at a synod held in Rome in 1079, and died reconciled to the Church.

39. Their arguments have been echoed during the synod, with repeated criticisms of institutions that promote "reproductive health care" for women.

40. But bishops and clergy in the church's General Synod gave a resounding thumbs down to proposals to amend church law to allow ministers to dress more casually.

41. But the prospect of a formal change in Church law, automatically clearing the way of wedding like this one, has caused anger in the Synod.

42. Church councils in the eastern church: Synod of Hippo , 393 ; Synod of Carthage, 397.

43. We indeed willingly concede, if any discussion arises over doctrine, that the best and surest remedy is for a synod of true bishops to be convened, where the doctrine at issue may be examined.

44. The Emperor supported the synod, but the Pope repudiated it.

45. The issue came to a head when the 291st synod prior is of terra debated the use of the Repressor by the Order of Sacred Rose.

46. Synod , yesterday win Royal Assent and pass into law before the wedding day next April.