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
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 Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose) Sawyer
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 Robert E. Knowles
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
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