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 β Mar. 2, 2023
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
Zinzendorf's monarchical prerogative was surrendered to the eldership, and Spangenberg prudently secured the withdrawal of all excrescences and extravagances.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
SESSION, s. the consistory, or parochial eldership in Scotland.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Alexander Leighton
The senior minister ceased to preside over the eldership; and the Church was no longer governed, as heretofore, by the "blessed presbyters."
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
