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1. Should the General Synod vote women into the priesthood?

2. The General Synod accused broadcasters of dumbing down religious programmes.

3. The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests.

4. After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation.

5. Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!

6. The church of Ireland still has one all-island synod, the presbyterians a single general assembly, the methodists one conference.

7. We pray for the general synod as it meets shortly, for wise decisions and clear leadership.

8. Disturbed bishops gathered in synod at Antioch to express their disapproval.

9. It often appears in general Synod with some unspoken assumptions about the text of the Bible.

10. He allowed that others had proposed the Roman synod and the revision of the Code of Canon Law.

11. A synod or convention back in 1662 found the majority of ministers ready to compromise.

12. In this way the Synod will help develop closer collaboration between religious, lay people and priests.

13. The Council of the African Synod is a grouping of bishops from 16 African nations.

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14. The General Synod could consider laying down salary scales for church musicians, as it does in respect of parochial fees.

15. A large minority of bishops at a 1980 synod on the family, meanwhile, asked that the encyclical be reconsidered.

16. The aim of the Synod consisted in enabling the church to get rid of the control of the foreign mission, and thereby to establish and develop indigenousness and united church in its proper sense.

17. Around 70% of the church's 250-strong synod, or church board, voted to back the move, making it one of few global churches to allow gay marriage.

18. The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed concern at the refusal of some clergy to accept the vote of the Synod.

19. Are there any other important aspects concerning Religious Life which should receive attention during the Synod?

20. As a retreat conductor, preacher and speaker for religious communities in the Assembly and the Synod he had few rivals.

21. Convocation, by 1327 no longer confusable with parliament, was assimilated to the clergy's own provincial synod.

22. Thus, tired of being the poor and comparatively impotent relation, General Synod is now chafing at the bit.

23. The proposal will be debated in dioceses before being returned to the synod for final approval in 1991.

24. There were only a few dozen synagogues and fewer rabbis, yet the synod took two decades to convene.

25. The statement was issued by leading bishops following an emergency meeting of the Holy Synod in Belgrade.

26. A two-thirds majority is needed in each house of the General Synod when voting takes place next Wednesday.

27. A decision on the ordination of women priests will be taken by the General Synod in November.

28. In 1930, the Southern Presbytery was reorganized as the Southern Synod, and that the four aforementioned regional churches became "Presbyteries".

29. Under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 a Measure of the General Synod of the Church of England becomes law once it has received Royal Assent in the same way as an Act of Parliament.

30. In the year 664, only a few decades before Eadfrith sat down with pen in hand, there had been a big meeting now known as the Synod of Whitby.