Sentences with phrase «synod decide»

They preserve the status quo, and if a sufficient number of members of General Synod decide that it is better to permit same - sex marriage, then their proposal will undoubtedly be ratified by the House of Commons without much debate.

Members of the Church of England's General Synod decided that clergy aren't required to wear robes with... More

Nestlé lobbied extremely hard against this initiative and the Synod decided to suspend its support for the boycott and conduct its own investigation.

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It had always been the synod's understanding that matters of doctrine were to be decided only by the Word of God, the Bible.

In practice the Government played the role of a presbytery or a synod in administering rebukes and discipline, which the clergy decided was necessary against such people as Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, or Robert Child.

By the fifth century, the synods of the Persian church decided that even the clergy could marry.

The Synod of Dadyeshu decided that the Catholicos should be the sole head of the Persian church and that no ecclesiastical authority should be acknowledged above him.

The first synod of Isaac in AD 410 had decided that the Catholicos of Seleucia Ctesiphon be supreme among the bishops of the East.

Had the ordinary synod of 2015 decided to give to dioceses and regions the decision of admitting divorced and civilly «remarried» couples to the Eucharist, for instance, a very strong case could be made that anyone able to read pontifical tea leaves would have been able to predict that outcome.

«Wherefore this holy synod -LSB-...] does not, however, have it in mind to give a complete doctrine on Mary, nor does it wish to decide those questions which the work of theologians has not yet fully clarified... «2

... It is important that the Church of England should have its special position recognised and there should be exemption for it, so that it is up to the synod to decide whether it wishes to pass a measure.

Referring to events at the Church of England synod, Ian Lucas, Labour MP for Wrexham, noted that the bishops» privilege was «even more inexplicable on this day when the Church of England has decided not to appoint women bishops.»