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

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

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 Sawyer, Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose)

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.

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.