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The date of the synod was first announced as October 2022, [7] but was then changed to October 2023 because the scope of the synod had been widened. [4] [8] A further extension was announced in October 2022, taking the closing date to October 2024. [9] The list of all 364 participants was published on 7 July 2023. [10]
Regional synods had been held regularly in the Church of Gaul, more than thirty of them between 314 and 506. [1] The synods listed here (some of which are also referred to as "General synods of the German empire") mark a particularly Germanic development in the Western Church: to the usual regional or provincial councils, Germanic peoples added a traditional element from their systems of ...
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Provincial councils, strictly so-called, date from the fourth century, when the metropolitical authority had become fully developed. But synods, approaching nearer to the modern signification of a plenary council, are to be recognized in the synodical assemblies of bishops under primatial, exarchal, or patriarchal authority, recorded from the fourth and fifth centuries, and possibly earlier.
The participants in the Frankfurt synod included, among others, Paulinus II the Patriarch of Aquileia, Peter, Archbishop of Milan, the Benedictine Abbot Benedict of Aniane, the Abbot Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, as well as many bishops of England, Gaul, Aquitaine, the Spanish March, the County of Roussillon, and the lower Languedoc.
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).
The 511 Council of Orléans was the first national Merovingian church council. It was an important milestone in creating a unified Gallic Church under Frankish rule, and accordingly the matters addressed at the council reflected the concerns of the Catholic episcopate in this new political context. [6]
The Carolingian Church encompasses the practices and institutions of Christianity in the Frankish kingdoms under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty (751-888). In the eighth and ninth centuries, Western Europe witnessed decisive developments in the structure and organisation of the church, relations between secular and religious authorities, monastic life, theology, and artistic endeavours.