SYNOD

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) Among the moderns a distinction is sometimes made between a council and a synod; the former term representing a general a embly Of the episcopal, provincial, or national order; the latter the Convention of the inferior clergy of a dioce under its bishop or archdeacon. See Council. Synod, in the Scottish Kirk, an a embly composed of two or more presbyteries. It consists of every parish minwhhln its limits, and of the elders who have last replied the different se ion* in the presbytery. There are Is in Scotland. See Presbytery. [s. 1225]