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See also:SYNOD (Gr. vbvobos) , a See also:term denoting an See also:assembly of ecclesiastical officials legally convoked to discuss and decide points of faith, discipline and morals. It is practically synonymous with the word See also:council (q.v.); concilium is used in the same technical sense by See also:Tertullian c. 200, and Quvo5os a See also:century or so later in the Apostolic canons. In See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, however, the word council came to be restricted to See also:oecumenical gatherings, while synod was applied to meetings of the eastern or western branches of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church
(the first council of See also:Constantinople was originally a See also:mere council or synod of the See also:East), or to See also:councils of the Reformed churches, e.g. the Synod of See also:Dort. Provincial synods were held in the 2nd century, and were not completely organized before the See also:advent of oecumenical councils. The two terms are still used See also:side by side; thus there are patriarchal, See also:national and primatial councils, as well as provincial councils (under the See also:metropolitan of a See also:province) and diocesan synods, consisting of the See also:clergy of a See also:diocese and presided over by the See also:bishop (or the See also:vicar-See also:general). The supreme governing See also:body in the See also:Russian See also:branch of the Orthodox Eastern Church (q.v.) is known as the See also:Holy Synod. In the Presbyterian churches (see See also:PRESBYTERIANISM) a synod is an assembly containing representatives of several presbyteries and inter-mediate between these and the General Assembly; similarly in the Wesleyan and other Methodist churches the synod is the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the See also:district which links the circuits with the See also:conference. The term is not in use in self-governing churches like the Congregationalists and See also:Baptists, though these from time to time hold councils or assemblies (national and See also:international), for conference and fellowship without any legislative See also:power.
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