A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons concerning religion; belng the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latln. There are four klnds: (1) A general or unlversal synod or council, where -bishops of all nations meet; (2) a national synod of the clergy of one nation only; (3) a provin-dal synod, where eccleslastlcal persons of a province only assemble, being now what is called the “convocatlon;” (4) a diocesan syn-od, of those of one diocese. See Com. v. Green, 4 whart (Pa.) 560; Groesbeeck ▼. Dunscomh, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 344
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
