The Iglesia Filipina Independiente is a Church that is governed synodically.
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Functionally, Anglican episcopal authority is expressed synodically, although individual provinces may accord their primate with more or less authority to act independently.
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While the Missouri Synod did not expel the Protes'tants, it synodically ratified the expulsions in 1927. Hensel, Ph.: "A Brief History of the Protes'tant Controversy", Faith-Life, 73(6):5.
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1905, vol. 4, p. 381. See also James Grant, Episcopally Led and Synodically Governed (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2010), p. 393. On 25 March 1911, he was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Auckland.
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His own diocese had already accorded clerical (ordained by the laying on of hands) status to its deaconesses, but this practice (and recognition) was not universal among the Australian dioceses.James Grant, Episcopally Led and Synodically Governed (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010), pp. 257, 270.
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Organizationally, the Reformed Churches in Switzerland remain separate, cantonal units. The German churches are more in the Zwinglian tradition; the French more in the Calvinist tradition - even though both are parts of the Reformed tradition. They are governed synodically and their relation to the respective canton (in Switzerland, there are no church-state regulations at a national level) ranges from independent to close collaboration, depending on historical developments.
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In the latter meeting, the Church fathers expelled Arminians and added the Canons of Dort to the Confessions. The Canons of Dort, together with the previously adopted Belgic Confession and Heidelberg Catechism, were called the Drie formulieren van Enigheid (Three Forms of Unity). Most conflicts and splits in the Church arose because of disagreement over the substance and interpretation of these doctrinal documents. The government of the Dutch Republic, which had instigated the Arminians' expulsion, subsequently prohibited the Reformed Church from assembling synodically.
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Grant collaborated with Geoffrey Serle in the publication of The Melbourne Scene (1957), is the author of the centenary history of Trinity College, Perspective of a Century (1972), and a history of Anglicans in Victoria, Episcopally Led and Synodically Governed: Anglicans in Victoria 1803–1997 (2010). He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1994, received a Jubilee Medal in 1977 and a Centenary Medal in 2001 and in his retirement continued to serve Trinity College as its bequest officer.
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This formulation, in turn, laid the groundwork for an independent view of the church as a "sacred society" distinct from civil society, which was so crucial for the development of local churches as non-established entities outside England, and gave direct rise to the Catholic Revival and disestablishmentarianism within England. Functionally, Anglican episcopal authority is expressed synodically, although individual provinces may accord their primate with more or less authority to act independently. Called variously "synods," "councils," or "conventions," they meet under episcopal chairmanship. In many jurisdictions, conciliar resolutions that have been passed require episcopal assent or consent to take force.
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Organizationally, the Reformed Churches in Switzerland remained separate units until today (the Reformed Church of the Canton Zurich, the Reformed Church of the Canton Berne, etc.), the German part more in the Zwingli tradition, in the French part more in the Calvin tradition. Today they are members of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches. They are governed synodically and their relation to the respective canton (in Switzerland, there are no church-state regulations on country-level) ranges from independent to close collaboration, depending on historical developments. A distinctive of the Swiss Reformed churches in Zwingli tradition is their historically almost symbiotic link to the state (cantons) which is only loosening gradually in the present.
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One of Phillpotts' greatest political battles was over the restoration of Convocation, which has developed into the General Synod (as it is now called). He was convinced that the Church needed to establish its rulings in a legislative body, and in a communication in May 1843 to his friend, the Rt Hon J.W. Croker, he explained: > I wish it to sit again, only for the purpose of synodically devising a > better synod than itself; one, more like the synods of the early church – in > one house, with less of power to the Presbyters – but more means of counsel > and aid from them to the Bishops than their separate house gives. I need not > tell you that Convocation is not the ancient Synod of our own Church. We > need, – and must have – a legislative body, sitting for real business from > time to time.
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