 Its then 72 male members were to design a church constitution, including the regulations as to the synod.The formation of the Church of Hanover was thus started by defining all the then existing Lutheran congregations in the kingdom as part of the to-be-represented church electorate.In October 1864 the Estates Assembly of Hanover (the parliament Ständeversammlung) adopted the first law, outlined by the proto-synod, as to the constitution of the all-Hanoverian Lutheran state church, its component subdivisions (dioceses and jurisdictions), and its legislative state synod (; historically state synod is the correct translation, as to the post-1918 function, without state churches anymore, regional synod is more appropriate).