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
But the girls' pride in his advancement was so colossal, and their determination to live up to the dignity of the eldership was so deep-seated, that affairs ran on quite serenely in the new home.
From Prudence Says So by Ethel Hueston
SESSION, s. the consistory, or parochial eldership in Scotland.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
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 Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose) Sawyer
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
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