Sentences with phrase «after the reforming synod»
Meanwhile, as the local churches were revolting against overall control, there was widespread revolt against the power of the ministers in the local churches until «after the Reforming Synod [of 1697], the clergy found themselves shorn of every weapon except moral persuasion, and their threat of [Divine] vengeance.»
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The Renewal and Reform programme, kick - started after the General Synod in 2010, aims to grow the church and re-imagine it for the 21st century.