My paper critically evaluates many of the volumes on Synodality coming out of Europe and North America. I use as test-case for European thinking on Synodality, the articles that appear in the Gregorianum and Louvain Studies. I use as test-case for North American thinking on Synodality, the writings on the subject by the US theologians Gaillardetz. Bradford Hinze, and Massimo Faggioli. All three thinkers speak glowingly of the synodal vision of Pope Francis, which they also uphold as transformative of Christian ecclesial life. But they also recognize some limitations. Thus, while my essay acknowledges the ferment in Synodality-discourse as presently constituted, it also uses postcolonial optic to question whether the supreme power of the Church—legislative, administrative, judicial, and supervisory—resides only in the west. My conclusion is that for the Church to achieve a “noncompetitive theology of church,” that quest must begin with and be rooted in ecclesiastical decolonization.