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The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations.

1 Anglican Communion
2 Other Churches
3 Other uses
4 External links
5 See also

Anglican Communion

Church of England

Main article: General Synod of the Church of England

In the Church of England, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 (replacing the Church Assembly), is the legislative body of the Church. The General Synod is the deliberative and legislative body of the Church of England. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The General Synod is the deliberative and legislative body of the Church of England.

Episcopal Church of the United States

In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the equivalent is General Convention. The Episcopal Church is the official name of the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. The General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America is its primary governing and legislative body

Other member churches

General Synods of other churches within the Anglican Communion

Anglican Church of Australia
Anglican Church of Canada
Church of Ireland
Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Scottish Episcopal Church
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (Anglican Church in Hong Kong)

Other Churches

The United Church of Christ in the United States also calls their main governing body a General Synod. See also Anglicanism The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches The Anglican Church of Australia, a member church of the Anglican Communion, was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania (renamed The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada is the chief governing and legislative body of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC the sole Canadian representative The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. The Scottish Episcopal Church (Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba is a Christian denomination in Scotland and a member of the Anglican Communion, although it The General Synod of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( exercises the metropolitical authority of the Anglican Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. The United Church of Christ ( UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination principally in the United States, It meets every two years and consists of over 600 delegates from various congregations and conferences.

The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has as its highest Church court the General Synod. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church is a small denomination, formed from the merger of the Associate ( Seceder) and most of the Reformed Presbyterian The ARP General Synod meets yearly (in recent years, it has, almost without exception, been held at Bonclarken). Bonclarken is a conference center located in Flat Rock North Carolina (between Asheville North Carolina and Greenville South Carolina) operated by the The delegates to the General Synod of the ARP Church are the elder representatives elected from each church's Session and all ministers from all presbyteries that comprise the Church (excluding ministers and elders from the independent ARP Synods of Mexico and Pakistan). The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church is a small denomination, formed from the merger of the Associate ( Seceder) and most of the Reformed Presbyterian The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and

Other uses

In the North American Lutheran tradition, General Synod refers to a church body (denomination) which existed from 1820-1918. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther See General Synod (Lutheran). The General Synod (officially known as the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America) was an association of Lutheran church bodies in

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