synod

A council or an assembly of church officials or churches; an ecclesiastical council.

A council or an assembly.

In the Reformed Dutch Church and in the Reformed German Church of the United States, a body composed of clerical and lay representatives from the classes, having complete supervision of the church and acting as the highest judicatory.

In the Lutheran Ch., the district council, composed of all the ministers and one lay representative from each congregation in the district.

In the Reformed German Ch., a delegated body of ministers and elders from adjacent classes, subject to the general synod.