Beza at La Rochelle
The election of Beza as moderator of the seventh national synod at La Rochelle in 1571 supplies ample proof of his stature among the Reformed churches in France. This gathering, arguably the most important Reformed synod in the sixteenth century, strengthened the church’s oversight of doctrine and produced definitive editions of the French Confession of Faith and the Discipline ecclésiastique.
Scott Manetsch, "Theodore Beza (1519-1605) and the Crisis of Reformed Protestantism in France", in Martin Klauber, ed., The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2014), 39