eldership

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"Dr Mawhinney's comments ignore the fact that it has been the policy of the Presbyterian Church to ordain women to eldership for almost a century, and to the ministry for exactly fifty years," it continued.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023

In fact, the eldership is used in the Second Book of Discipline itself as a convertible term with presbytery, and is often so used in the acts of contemporary assemblies.

From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by Fleming, David Hay

But the proper, public, official, authoritative power, is quite denied to the body of the people, furnished with an eldership or destitute thereof.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

I took the eldership at your hands, I know, saying nothing of the dark blot that soiled the past.

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.

And the chief priest coming, and those with him, called the Sanhedrim together, and all the eldership of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

From The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. by Sawyer, Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose)