Synod

A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons concerning religion; being the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latin. There are four kinds: (1) A general or universal synod or council, where bishops of all nations mcet; (2) a national synod of the clergy of one nation only; (3) a provincial synod, where ecclesiastical persons of a province only assemble, being now what is called the "convocation;" (4) a diocesan synod, of those of one diocese.

See Com. v. Green, 4 Whart (Pat) 560; Groesbeeck v. Dunscomb, 41 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 344.

A synod in Scotland is composed of three or more presbyteries.

Wharton.