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  Synod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.
Diocesan synods are irregular meetings of the clergy and laity of a particular church summoned by the diocesan bishop in an advisory capacity on legislative matters.
In the Anglican Communion, synods are elected by clergy and laity.
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 Articles - Synod   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Orthodox churches, synods are composed of bishops and are the primary vehicle for the election of bishops and the establishment of inter-diocesan ecclesiastical laws.
A diocesan synod is a non-permanent meeting of the clergy and laity of a particular church summoned by the diocesan bishop as an advisory council on legislative matters.
In the Anglican Communion, ´´General Synods´´ are elected by clergy and laity.
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 Synod - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine or administration.
Originally synods were meetings of bishops, and is still used in that sense in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
In the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, synods are composed of bishops.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Synod   (393 words)

  
 First Synod of Tyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Synod of Tyre was convened by the Emperor Constantine I in 335 to judge the case against Saint Athanasius, the Patriarch of Alexandria.
In 334 Athanasius was summoned before a synod in Caesarea, which he did not attend.
The bishops from this synod soon thereafter convinced Constantine to exile Marcellus of Ancyra, another strong anti-Arian.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Synod_of_Tyre   (251 words)

  
 UK Synod info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In most Anglican churches, there is a geographical hierarchy of synods, with " General Synod " at the top; bishops, clergy and laity meet as "houses" within the synod.
All of these were influenced in their constitution by the Church of Scotland, which however dissolved its synods in the 1980s.
Reformed church of Zurich, Reformed church of Berne) the synod corresponds to the general assembly of Presbyterian churches.
www.uk-informations.4that.info /synod-info.php   (461 words)

  
 Eusebius - Theopedia
For instance, in the dispute with Eustathius of Antioch, who opposed the growing influence of Origen and his practice of an allegorical exegesis of scripture, seeing in his theology the roots of Arianism, Eusebius, an admirer of Origen, was reproached by Eustathius for deviating from the Nicene faith, and was charged in turn with Sabellianism.
Eustathius was accused, condemned and deposed at a synod in Antioch.
At the same synod, another opponent was successfully attacked: Marcellus of Ancyra had long opposed the Eusebians, and had protested against the reinstitution of Arius.
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 Understanding Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
While many Syrian prelates followed the innovator, he was condemned at Alexandria in 321 by his diocesan in a synod of nearly one hundred Egyptian and Libyan bishops.
Deprived and excommunicated, the heresiarch fled to Palestine.
The packed and partisan Synod of Tyre deposed Athanasius on a series of futile charges in 335.
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 Rome - Vol II, Chapter XXI, Part 5
The sentence which was pronounced in the synod of Tyre, and subscribed by a large majority of the Eastern bishops, had never been expressly repealed; and as Athanasius had been once degraded from his episcopal dignity by the judgment of his brethren, every subsequent act might be considered as irregular, and even criminal.
Their integrity was gradually undermined by the arguments of the Arians, the dexterity of the eunuchs, and the pressing solicitations of a prince who gratified his revenge at the expense of his dignity, and exposed his own passions, whilst he influenced those of the clergy.
The usurper, after receiving the consecration of an Arian synod, was placed on the episcopal throne by the arms of Sebastian, who had been appointed Count of Egypt for the execution of that important design.
www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol2/ch2105.html   (2704 words)

  
 Chapter Persecution Of Heresy, State Of The Church. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
He resolved to make a bold and dangerous experiment, whether the throne was inaccessible to the voice of truth; and before the final sentence could be pronounced at Tyre, the intrepid primate threw himself into a bark which was ready to hoist sail for the Imperial city.
The request of a formal audience might have been opposed or eluded; but Athanasius concealed his arrival, watched the moment of Constantine's return from an adjacent villa, and boldly encountered his angry sovereign as he passed on horseback through the principal street of Constantinople.
Their debates soon degenerated into hostile altercations; the Asiatics, apprehensive for their personal safety, retired to Philippopolis in Thrace; and the rival synods reciprocally hurled their spiritual thunders against their enemies, whom they piously condemned as the enemies of the true God.
www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25663/14.html   (646 words)

  
 Exceptional Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
After due consultation with His Holiness Pope John Paul II and the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, an exceptional Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church was held at the Patriarchal Residence, Rabweh, Lebanon on Wednesday, November 22, 2000.
It was convened and presided by the Patriarchal Administrator, Archbishop John Haddad of Tyre.
The Holy Synod of the Bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church held on November 22, accepted the resignation of His Beatitude Maximos Hakim V, which he had presented to the Synod {by writing, signed by him and by four witnesses,} on October 17, 2000.
www.melkite.org /sa18.htm   (607 words)

  
 NPNF (V2-02) (iii.vii.xxviii)
Letter from the Emperor Constantine to the Synod of Tyre, and Exile of St. Athanasius through the Machination of the Arian Faction.
Chapter XXVIII.—Letter from the Emperor Constantine to the Synod of Tyre, and Exile of St. Athanasius through the Machination of the Arian Faction.
But Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia, and his partisans, went to the emperor, and represented that the Synod of Tyre had enacted no decrees against Athanasius but what were founded on justice.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf202.iii.vii.xxviii.html   (658 words)

  
 St. Athanasius, orthodox saints, Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
had him exiled to Trier, after false accusations at the Synod of Tyre by the Arians, who were his opponents.
After Constantine had died, St. Athanasius returned to office, but was again exiled after the Synod of Antioch in 339.
Ten years later the Synod of Milan banished him again, and he fled to the monks in the desert of Egypt.
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 Table of contents for Marcellus of Ancyra and the lost years of the Arian controversy, 325-345
Known bishops at the Dedication Synod of Antioch 341 260 Table 7.
The bishops at the Eastern synod of Serdica 343 261 Table 8.
The bishops at the Western synod of Serdica 343 263 Bibliography 265 Index 000
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 The Early Unitarians: Arius and His Followers
The synod (a sort of council) of Tyre and Jerusalem (apparently meeting at Tyre) restores Arius and his friends into church communion, and Athanasius is deposed.
He too appeals to the Emperor, who summons those who had met in the synod at Tyre to discuss in his presence.
The Emperor is persuaded that the synod at Tyre was right, and Athanasius goes into exile at Trier.
www.wku.edu /~jan.garrett/arius.htm   (1754 words)

  
 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. I
From the Synodical Epistle of the Bishops of Egypt, met in the City of Alexandria, to All the Bishops of the Catholic Church (which Athanasius gives in his second apology against the Arians).
He is said to have afterwards withdrawn from the opinion of Arius, and to have become of like mind with those who hold that the Son is coëqual and of the same nature with the Father, and to have been received into communion by the holy Fathers.
Moreover, in the Acts of the first Synod, he is found to have defended the faithful.
www.bible.ca /history/fathers/NPNF2-01/Npnf2-01-03.htm   (2519 words)

  
 Footnotes
An Egyptian Bishop named Nonnus was present at the Synod of Tyre.
An Egyptian Bishop of the name of Saprion was at the Synod of Tyre.
Jarchi interprets the passage figuratively of Issachar being Strong to hear tile yoke of the law.
www.bible.ca /history/fathers/NPNF2-04/footnote/fn94.htm   (298 words)

  
 Church Councils   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
May 20th to July 25th 325 A.D. Nicea I - Opposed Arians and created Nicean Creed 250-318 bishops out of 1,800 bishops in the world.
375 A.D. Synod of Ancyra attempts to arrest Gregory of Nyssa
550 A.D. Synod of Dwin II - rejects Council of Chalcedon
www.biblequery.org /History/ChurchHistory/ChurchCouncils.htm   (1728 words)

  
 Newman Reader - Historical Tracts of St. Athanasius - 1
In that year the Eusebians held the famous Council of the Dedication at Antioch, vid.
109, andc.) Here they appointed Gregory to the see of Alexandria in the place of Athanasius, whom they had already condemned and denounced at the Synod of Tyre, A.D.
Gregory was by birth a Cappadocian, and, (if Nazianzen speaks of the same Gregory, which some critics doubt,) studied at Alexandria, where S. Athanasius had treated him with great kindness and familiarity, though Gregory afterwards took part in propagating the calumny against him of having murdered Arsenius.
www.newmanreader.org /works/athanasius/historical/tract1.html   (2508 words)

  
 NPNF (V2-02) (iii.vii.xxxi)
When he heard that the Church was split into two factions, of which one supported Athanasius and the other John, he was transported with indignation, and exiled John himself.
This John had succeeded Melitius, and had, with those who held the same sentiments as himself, been restored to communion and reestablished in the clerical functions by the Synod of Tyre.
This chapter has no parallel in the present sources.
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