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

"I wudna wonder if ye didna come yont to tell me aboot the eldership," he said slowly.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

Angus Strachan, ordained already, I give you the right hand of fellowship into the eldership of St. Cuthbert's church.

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

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 Hueston, Ethel

They who were convicted of such offences, were sometimes rebuked in private by an elder, and at other times by the minister in the presence of the eldership.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh