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

The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 (replacing the Church Assembly), is the legislative body of the Church.

he Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the equivalent is General Convention
General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America is its primary governing and legislative body.The convention is held every three years....
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eneral Synods of other churches within the Anglican Communion
Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy....

United Church of Christ
United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Protestantism Christian denomination principally in the United States, generally considered within the Reformed churches tradition....
 in the United States also calls their main governing body a General Synod.






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

Anglican Communion


Church of England


In the Church of England
Church of England

The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 (replacing the Church Assembly), is the legislative body of the Church.

Episcopal Church of the United States

In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the equivalent is General Convention
General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America is its primary governing and legislative body.The convention is held every three years....
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Other member churches

General Synods of other churches within the Anglican Communion
Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy....
  • Anglican Church of Australia
    Anglican Church of Australia

    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 ....
  • Anglican Church of Canada
    General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada

    The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada is the chief governing and legislative body of the Anglican Church of Canada , the sole Canadian representative of the Anglican Communion....
  • Church of Ireland
    Church of Ireland

    The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation....
  • Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
    Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

    The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is a church of the Anglican Communion serving New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands....
  • Scottish Episcopal Church
    Scottish Episcopal Church

    The Scottish Episcopal Church is a Christian denomination in Scotland and a member of the Anglican Communion, although it itself has pre-Anglican origins....
  • Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
    General Synod of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui

    The General Synod of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui exercises the metropolitical authority of the Anglican Communion of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. It is a unicameral synod which governs the Province and has the final authority in all matters affecting life, order and canonical discipline of the Church....
     (Anglican Church in Hong Kong)


Other Churches

The United Church of Christ
United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Protestantism Christian denomination principally in the United States, generally considered within the Reformed churches tradition....
 in the United States also calls their main governing body a General Synod. It meets every two years and consists of over 600 delegates from various congregations and conferences.

The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church

The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church is a small Christian denomination, formed from the merger of the Associate and most of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America churches in Philadelphia in 1782....
 has as its highest Church court the General Synod. The ARP General Synod meets yearly (in recent years, it has, almost without exception, been held at Bonclarken
Bonclarken

Bonclarken is a conference center located in Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina operated by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church ....
). 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
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 and Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
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Other uses

In the North American Lutheran tradition, General Synod refers to a church body (denomination) which existed from 1820-1918. See General Synod (Lutheran)
General Synod (Lutheran)

The General Synod was an association of Lutheran church bodies in America. The roots of the General Synod reach back to the Pennsylvania Ministerium, at whose suggestion the Synod was founded in 1820....
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How the Church of England is organised
Church of England

The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
 List of Church of England Measures
List of Church of England Measures

This is a list of Church of England Measures, which are the legislation of the Church of England. Since 1970, Measures have been made by the General Synod of the Church of England; prior to then they were made by its predecessor, the Church Assembly....
 General Assembly
General assembly

General assembly could be:...