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 1 Intro      |           way be invoked or named as synods. Let this not happen". Some
 2 Intro      |             say that, as regards the synods which were held against
 3 Intro      |          from the number of the holy synods". For these reasons there
 4 Definit    |             the previously mentioned synods in that it wisely laid down
 5 Definit    |            seven, holy and universal synods already enumerated by us,
 6 Definit    |              sprung up against those synods, together with the evil
 7 Canons,  17|       leading prelates from going to synods for ecclesiastical business
 8 Canons,  17|            had the custom of holding synods twice a year and therefore,
 9 Canons,  17| metropolitans, is conscious that the synods summoned by the patriarchal
10 Canons,  17|        presence of secular rulers at synods but only the presence of
11 Canons,  17|             have not been present at synods but only at universal councils.