ecclesiastical council

An ecclesiastical council is a formal assembly of church leaders convened to deliberate and decide on matters of doctrine, discipline, and church governance.

Observed surface forms (35)

• Second Vatican Council decree ×6
• ecclesiastical assembly ×5
• ecclesiastical governing body ×4
• church synod ×3
• Anglican Consultative Council meeting ×2
• Catholic ecclesiastical assembly ×2
• Christian synod ×2
• Visigothic council ×2
• church governing body ×2
• 20th-century Christian council ×1

• Byzantine council ×1
• Catholic Church synod ×1
• Catholic ecumenical council ×1
• Christian ecumenical council ×1
• Council of Constantinople ×1
• North African church synod ×1
• Synod of Bishops ×1
• Synod of Bishops assembly ×1
• Western Church council ×1
• church convention ×1
• church convocation ×1
• church legislature ×1
• churchwide assembly ×1
• council of the Holy Roman Empire ×1
• council of the Western Church ×1
• early Christian council ×1
• ecclesiastical event ×1
• ecclesiastical synod ×1
• first council of the Christian Church ×1
• governing council of bishops ×1
• iconoclast council ×1
• object of ecclesiastical condemnation ×1
• pan-Orthodox council ×1
• provincial synod ×1
• regional synod ×1

Instances (47)

• Third Council of Constantinople via concept surface "Christian ecumenical council"
• Synod of Dort via concept surface "ecclesiastical assembly"
• Council of Carthage (418) via concept surface "North African church synod"
• Council of Orange (529) via concept surface "regional synod"
• Third Council of Toledo via concept surface "Visigothic council"
• Diet of Worms via concept surface "council of the Holy Roman Empire"
  surface form: Diet of Worms (1521)
• Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) via concept surface "pan-Orthodox council"
• Council of Jerusalem via concept surface "first council of the Christian Church"
• Lateran Council of 649 via concept surface "ecclesiastical assembly"
• Ad Gentes via concept surface "Second Vatican Council decree"
• Unitatis Redintegratio via concept surface "Second Vatican Council decree"
• Orientalium Ecclesiarum via concept surface "Second Vatican Council decree"
• Inter Mirifica via concept surface "Second Vatican Council decree"
• Perfectae Caritatis via concept surface "Second Vatican Council decree"
• Apostolicam Actuositatem via concept surface "Second Vatican Council decree"
• Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate via concept surface "governing council of bishops"
• Convocation Convention via concept surface "church convention"
• Standing Committees of dioceses in the Episcopal Church (United States) via concept surface "ecclesiastical governing body"
• General Assembly of the Church of Scotland via concept surface "church governing body"
• Council of Alexandria (AD 362) via concept surface "Christian synod"
• Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2015) via concept surface "Synod of Bishops assembly"
• Council of Elvira via concept surface "Christian synod"
• Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany via concept surface "church synod"
• Churchwide Assembly via concept surface "churchwide assembly"
• ACC-17 via concept surface "Anglican Consultative Council meeting"
• ACC-18 via concept surface "Anglican Consultative Council meeting"
• Second Council of Ephesus via concept surface "church synod"
• Convocation of York via concept surface "ecclesiastical assembly"
• Provincial Synod of Province IX via concept surface "provincial synod"
• Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization (2012) via concept surface "Synod of Bishops"
• Convocation of Canterbury via concept surface "ecclesiastical assembly"
• Three Chapters via concept surface "object of ecclesiastical condemnation"
• Provincial Synod via concept surface "church synod"
  surface form: Provincial Synod (Anglican Church of Southern Africa)
• Synod of Bishops via concept surface "ecclesiastical assembly"
  surface form: Synod of Bishops (Anglican Church of Southern Africa)
• Fourth Council of Toledo via concept surface "ecclesiastical synod"
• Holy Synod of Bishops via concept surface "ecclesiastical governing body"
• Fourth Council of Constantinople via concept surface "Catholic ecumenical council"
• Council of Hieria via concept surface "Byzantine council"
• Local Council of 1917–1918 via concept surface "20th-century Christian council"
• Westminster Assembly
• Holy Synod of the Church of Greece via concept surface "ecclesiastical governing body"
• Holy Synod
  surface form: Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church
• Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church via concept surface "ecclesiastical governing body"
• Council of Constance via concept surface "council of the Western Church"
• Holy Synod
  surface form: Holy Synod (Georgian Orthodox Church)
• Council of Clermont
• Council of Pisa via concept surface "Catholic ecclesiastical assembly"