Verb
To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe students were convened in the auditorium Source: Internet
Being sent on a mission to Rome in 1445, with the ostensible object of inducing Pope Eugene to convoke a new council, he was absolved from ecclesiastical censures and returned to Germany under an engagement to assist the Pope. Source: Internet
Lambert, the Cardinal of Ostia was dispatched to convoke a synod at Worms, which began on September 8, 1122. Source: Internet