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Official logo of the synod, English-speaking version . The 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, commonly referred to as the Synod on Synodality, [1] was a Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church which concluded 27 October 2024 [2] [3] and has as its theme "For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission". [4]
Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. [11] He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire , and was the host of Catholicism , a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS .
The diocesan bishop is the only person who can convene a diocesan synod (canon 462 §1). He proceeds over the entire synod, and can choose to suspend or dissolve the synod if he think it would be prudent to do so (canons 462 §2 and 468 §1).
What is the Catholic Church’s most recent synod trying to accomplish?
The council of the Synod of Bishops met with Pope Francis from 25–26 May 2015 to review the responses received. [16] The synod's general secretary reviewed them all, and incorporated them into a document that was used for the 2015 assembly. [16] Pope Francis also gave a series of catechetical sessions with the theme of the family in 2014 and ...
A meeting of a whole synod of bishops is called when a decision is required on a question that only the synod of bishops is authorized to decide, or when the patriarch or major archbishop, with the agreement of the standing synod, judges it to be necessary, or when at least one third of the bishops request that it be held to consider some ...
Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" wins over Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town" The Peanuts' "Linus and Lucy" wins over Alvin and the Chipmunks' "Chipmunk Song."
A synod (/ ˈ s ɪ n ə d /) is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. The word synod comes from the Ancient Greek σύνοδος ( synodos ) ' assembly, meeting ' ; the term is analogous with the Latin word concilium ' council ' .