Sentences with phrase «synod meets»

The Scottish Episcopal Church, part of Anglican tradition, is also expected to approve same - sex marriage when its General Synod meets later this year.

The measures are part of an overhaul of canon law regarding how church leaders dress which is set for the upcoming General Synod meeting later this week.

The report, presented in the Church's General Synod meeting on Thursday, states: «What we look to find in a bishop is the arc of a mature and compelling life of faithfulness to the gospel, the life «above reproach», that will represent the transforming power of the gospel to many outside the church who know nothing else of it.»

CSW said in 2005, the centre was raided by security agents during a Council Synod meeting, and all the clergy on the Council were arrested.

He plans to call for reform on the use of mitres during a debate on vestments at a General Synod meeting in York on Monday.

Speaking at the Church's General Synod meeting, the Bishop of Coventry flagged up a 1987 report issued by the church that highlighted a «number of very fundamental reasons to question the compatibility of Freemasonry and Christianity».

Not exact matches

The document is Pope Francis» official response to the two major meetings of bishops he hosted at the Vatican to discuss marriage and family issues — the Extraordinary Synod on the Family in 2014 and Synod of the Bishops in 2015.

Evangelii gaudium, which followed a 2012 Synod of Bishops meeting on «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,» has long been seen as a sweeping statement of Francis's agenda.

The Times reports details of the abuse complaints will be given to the General Synod, which began its three - day meeting in London on Thursday.

The document will be used as a guideline for discussions at a synod, a meeting of top Catholic bishops convened by Pope Francis, to be held in Rome in October.

Rev Steven Hanna and Rev Simon Smallwood also declared «no confidence» in their own Bishop of Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell, as their Diocesan Synod is meeting in a church that has passed a motion to approve of same sex marriages.

In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»

The vote happened Saturday at the General Synod, the three - times - a-year meeting that sets policies for the Church of England.

Dissatisfied with the Board of Control's verdict, Preus took the matter to the Missouri Synod's 1973 annual meeting in New Orleans.

The Synod of Dadyeshu met in AD 424 in Markabata of the Arabs under the presidency of Mar Dadyeshu.

The bishops asked him to speak to their Spring General Assembly, held in New Orleans June 10 - 13, as part of a broader effort to prepare for the upcoming Synod on the Family, which takes place this fall in Rome, and the World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Philadelphia in 2015.

The goal of this meeting, officially called the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family, is to present working proposals for a larger meeting to be held next October 2015.

Apparently plenty, as Warren's speech — which he said he wrote from scratch the night before after yesterday's speakers covered his previously prepared main points — was «probably the first time ever the synod hall resembled a revivalist meeting,» tweeted David Quinn, an Irish Catholic columnist.

A motion at its recent meeting asked the synod to «acknowledge the injury felt by members of the Church who enter into loving, committed and legally - recognised, same - sex relationships, due to the absence of provision for them to mark that key moment in their lives publicly and prayerfully in Church.»

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

It ran from October 7 to 28 inside the Synod Hall at the Vatican, where the cardinals held their pre-conclave meetings.

Few of us can resist the lure of the tidbit concerning the ugly spectacle at the motel during the last meeting of the synod's finance committee.

Neither Francis's whirligig visit to America nor October's tumultuous synod fully accounts for the meeting itself.

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

Finally, in October 1974 the Third General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops met in Rome to consider, «Evangelization in the Modern World».

Secretary General to the General Synod, William Fittall, told a parliamentary committee that although the Church does not have to meet equality laws, selection boards will be encouraged to use the «positive discrimination» part of the rules.

To meet the challenge a synod was held in Dort (or Dordrecht) in 1618 - 1619 to which delegates came not only from Reformed Churches in the Netherlands but also from Switzerland, Germany, and England.

A group of Conservative Catholics has called on Pope Francis to maintain rules around marriage when the Church's Synod of Bishops on the Family meets.

A director of church relations was hired who opened the college to many church functions - youth events, synod assembly, continuing education events and synod council meetings.

The synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, for example, plans to take up the Council's work at its next scheduled meeting, this month.

A spokesman for the Greek Orthodox Church in Athens told The Times that the actions of the company will be discussed at a special meeting of the Holy Synod next month.

Almost all its canons dealt with episcopacy and were authoritatively made a part of canon law by the Council of Chalcedon.4 These canons made clear that the bishops of a province, meeting semiannually in synod under the presidency of their metropolitan, constituted a collegium with a relationship to the metropolitan much like that of the second - century collegiate presbytery in relation to the bishop of the local church.

I was asked to provide a working group of the Lancashire District Synod with an update of concerns about Nestlé at their meeting in May.

The plans were announced at a meeting of the Church's General Synod on Sunday, at which the chair of the Anglican Board of Education, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Church schools.

My ability to blog and follow the markets will possibly be impaired, because I will be busy the first week with the annual meeting (Synod) of my denomination, and the next week, with my parents» 50th wedding anniversary.