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

You’ve been dinging me doited about that eldership, and we’ll play for’t.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

All these prerogatives belonged to the united eldership, in which the lay element was distinctly predominant.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

SESSION, s. the consistory, or parochial eldership in Scotland.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander

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 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor