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 St. Cuthbert's, the pride of eldership was chiefly vested in their wives and daughters.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
He was blessed to attract and reclaim very many of the most degraded; and by Sabbath schools and a regular eldership, to take superintendence of the population to a great extent.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Andrew A. Bonar
What one church without its eldership can be instanced in the New Testament, that in such cases once presumed to exercise such power, which might be precedent or example for it to other churches?
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
Another memory cherished in the monastery was that of the famous Father Varsonofy, who was only recently dead and had preceded Father Zossima in the eldership.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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