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A convocation (from the Latin convocare meaning "to call/come together", a translation of the Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose, mostly ecclesiastical or academic. The Britanica dictionary defines it as "a large formal meeting of people (such as church officials)".
The Convocation of 1563 was a significant gathering of English and Welsh clerics that consolidated the Elizabethan religious settlement, and brought the Thirty-Nine Articles close to their final form (which dates from 1571). It was, more accurately, the Convocation of 1562/3 of the province of Canterbury, beginning in January 1562 .
The division of Convocation into an Upper and a Lower House came about gradually, and was not formed, as is sometimes supposed, on the model of the two Houses of Parliament. In 1296 the members of Convocation resolved themselves for deliberative purposes into four groups: bishops, monastic representatives, dignitaries and proctors of the clergy.
Bahasa Indonesia; ಕನ್ನಡ ... It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it, which can also be called commencement, congregation, convocation ...
1st Convocation: 2 Nikolai Shvernik (1888–1970) [14] 19 March 1946 15 March 1953 6 years, 361 days 2nd–3rd Convocation: 3 Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) [15] 15 March 1953 7 May 1960 7 years, 53 days 3rd–5th Convocation: 4 Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) [16] 7 May 1960 15 July 1964 4 years, 69 days 5th–6th Convocation: 5 Anastas Mikoyan
An important figure in the convocation of the synod was Alchfrith, Oswiu's son and sub-king in Deira. Henry Mayr-Harting considered him the "chief cause of trouble which led to the Synod". [7] In the early 660s, he expelled Ionan monks from the monastery of Ripon and gave it to Wilfrid, a Northumbrian churchman who had recently returned from ...
In India the graduation ceremony is commonly known as convocation. At the universities and institutes, the graduation ceremonies are formal affairs, which include an academic procession by both the academic heads and the students.
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