Canon 1

Canon 1: On the Authority of Metropolitan Bishops—passes 170-0

Metropolitan Bishops, as descendants from the Apostles, are to be the primary authority for the Church in order to protect the Church from heresy and error. These Metropolitan Bishops are endowed with complete authority to resolve conflicts of doctrine and practice for the Church and have full influence over their provinces and the traditional large provinces, as they were known before 290 CE. And this is to be universally understood that if anyone be made bishop without the consent of the Metropolitan, the great Synod has declared that such a man ought not to be a bishop and must be reordained for readmission into the Church.