The Missionary Baptist Conference of the USA calls their main governing body a General Synod.
The delegates to the General Synod consists of the elder representatives elected from each church's session and all ministers from all presbyteries that comprise the Church (excluding ministers and elders from the independent ARP Synods of Mexico and Pakistan).
The governing body of the Reformed Church in America, a Calvinist denomination in the United States and Canada, is known as the General Synod.
Kirkemøtet, the governing body of the Church of Norway, is normally translated as General Synod.
In North America, the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America, often referred to as the General Synod, was a Lutheran church body that existed from 1820 to 1918.