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
This single congregation may be considered as presbyterated, i.e., furnished with an eldership; or as unpresbyterated, i.e., destitute of an eldership, having yet no elders or officers erected among them.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
Once more, another qualification for the eldership that our deceased brother possessed, was, that he had a good report from without.
From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Duncan McNeill Young
All these prerogatives belonged to the united eldership, in which the lay element was distinctly predominant.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
I soon perceived that I could do little unless I had power vested in me--unless I were elected to the eldership.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
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