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n. A council or an assembly of church officials or churches; an ecclesiastical council.

n. A council or an assembly.

n. An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

n. An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

n. An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.

n. A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.

n. An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

n. An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.

n. A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.

n. An assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates duly convoked, pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; an ecclesiastical council.

n. Specifically In Presbyterian churches, the court which ranks above the presbytery, and either is subordinate to a general assembly (as in most of the larger denominations) or is itself the supreme court of the church.

n. A meeting, convention, or council.

n. In astronomy, a conjunction of two or more planets or stars.

n. In the Reformed Dutch Church and in the Reformed German Church of the United States, a body composed of clerical and lay representatives from the classes, having complete supervision of the church and acting as the highest judicatory.

n. In the Lutheran Ch., the district council, composed of all the ministers and one lay representative from each congregation in the district

n. In the Reformed German Ch., a delegated body of ministers and elders from adjacent classes, subject to the general synod.

n. a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business

"The official objective of the synod is to strengthen Christian identity and promote ecumenism in Muslim countries."

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