What's the difference between diocesan and synodal?
Diocesan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
(n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
(n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact is that the vast majority of our petitioning parishes are in the Cleveland archdeaconry and so the see of Whitby is the obvious choice for such episcopal provision where the diocesan bishop is an outspoken advocate of women's ministry."
(2) For the first time in the church's history, the new archbishop was installed on his diocesan throne by a woman, the Venerable Sheila Watson, archdeacon of Canterbury.
(3) The reviewer would be required to have a "knowledge of, and commitment to, the Church of England", but would not have diocesan responsibilities.
(4) The Rt Rev Gene Robinson, of New Hampshire, revealed his plans yesterday, at an annual diocesan meeting.
(5) Faull has been the chaplain of an Oxbridge college, run two cathedrals, sat on some of the church's most important committees – but she remains a woman, and cannot until December at the earliest be named as a diocesan bishop.
(6) As a suffragan bishop, she will not be eligible to sit in the House of Lords – an honour reserved for only the most senior 26 of the church’s 43 diocesan bishops.
(7) He and his fellow Old Etonian Cameron have also arranged for legislation which will allow female diocesan bishops to be fast-tracked into the House of Lords, without waiting their turn to be among the 26 longest serving who have places there.
(8) For services to the Church of England particularly the Preservation of the Built Heritage of Churches through the Diocesan Advisory Committee in Lancashire.
(9) I thank you for this welcome by the diocesan community of Rome to its bishop.
(10) The 71 suffragan bishops are chosen directly by their diocesan bishops, without the months of committee deliberation required in other cases – allowing the new bishop to be named just four weeks after the change allowing female bishops.
(11) Lawyers for the trustees of Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust had appealed against a decision in the court of appeal that they had a duty to compensate a young girl for alleged beatings inflicted by a nun and sexual abuse perpetrated by a priest as long ago as the 1970s – if the facts of the abuse were established.
(12) ; 8) 11% of the diocesan sample believe there should be no laws on abortion.
(13) As a suffragan bishop, Lane could be appointed without passing through the tangle of committee meetings required to choose a diocesan – one who has their own cathedral and may sit in the House of Lords.
(14) She said: “In 2010, I was privileged to be invited to take part in the York diocesan clergy conference, where I got a profound sense of a diocese with faith and hope.
(15) Knowles was the diocesan bishop of Sodor and Man, and his unease before the cameras came through.
(16) Prof Sean Hand, of Warwick’s school of modern languages and cultures, said: “We have a strong offer for languages.” Gender gap in university admissions rises to record level Read more Ian Bauckham, headteacher of Bennett Memorial Diocesan school in Tunbridge Wells, said the number of applications for European modern foreign language (MFL) courses fell by nearly 20% between 2010 and 2014.
(17) She said: “As far as I am concerned, by Tuesday any bishop can pick up the phone to a woman and say: ‘I would like you to be my next suffragan.’ I don’t see the problem with a quick appointment of a [female] suffragan but of course it would be exciting if the first was a diocesan.
(18) Ian Bauckham, president of the ASCL, and head of Bennett Memorial Diocesan school in Tunbridge Wells, says the draft protocol reflects the pressure headteachers are now under all over the country.
(19) He will be led to the diocesan throne by the Venerable Sheila Watson, the archdeacon of Canterbury.
(20) She served as diocesan director of ordinands, also in Durham diocese, for two years and then nationally as part of the springboard team for four years.
Synodal
Definition:
(a.) Synodical.
(n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
(n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
Example Sentences:
(1) The book is being launched this weekend, in the run-up to the church’s General Synod in York next month.
(2) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(3) Part of the problem is procedural: that the will of the church’s parliament, the General Synod, is easily thwarted by a tiny minority of its members.
(4) He stressed that it was “not a magisterial document” but “a work in progress” that provided the basis for another synod next autumn.
(5) In a context where there is no discipline within the church for its current teaching, or very limited discipline, we are being asked to have a conversation that focuses on us, rather than focusing on what God’s word teaches.” Another conservative evangelical group, Christian Concern, planned to distribute “pledge cards” to synod members, aimed at upholding traditional teaching on marriage.
(6) It could, he said, be put to the vote when the synod meets in York in July.
(7) In the final report of an extraordinary synod on the family which has exposed deep divides in the church hierarchy, there is no mention – as there had been in a draft version – of the “gifts and qualities” gay people can offer.
(8) 12 studies are reviewed that have examined the relationships among crisis calls to police stations, poison centers, and crisis intervention centers and the synodic lunar cycle.
(9) Among test integers 6 through 33, the number 30, approximating the 29.53-day lunar-synodic month, was consistently and statistically a best-fit multiple to the data.
(10) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(11) As the conservative MP who speaks for the synod in parliament said: "I think the great danger for the church following the vote is that it will be seen increasingly as just like any other sect."
(12) The number of bishops in the Holy Synod increased from 20 to 83; four bishops were ordained in Britain, where 30,000 Egyptian Copts live.
(13) Synod members will be urged to refrain from disclosing the content of discussions on social media.
(14) The working group is due to meet again next month, and new proposals on female bishops will be put to the General Synod in July.
(15) His plea comes a day after the synod approved plans to fast-track legislation that could see the first female bishop chosen by the end of the year.
(16) But his proudest moment came in October, 1980 when he led the bishops in Rome for the Synod to Subiaco, where St Benedict began his monastic life.
(17) Synod member Christina Rees, who has campaigned for women in the church for 25 years, said women should eventually make up a high proportion of senior roles.
(18) In an internal memo the secretary general of the synod, William Fittall, urged the church to pursue an "urgent and radical" new strategy in order to see women in the episcopate by 2015.
(19) The Church of England said that, in all, 72.6% of synod members had backed the measure in the crucial vote, which came at the end of more than 100 passionate and moving speeches.
(20) It took two months of Waite's negotiating skills to gain their release, which Runcie was able to announce at a dramatic moment in the middle of the 1981 February general synod.