eldership
Example Sentences
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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
Zinzendorf's monarchical prerogative was surrendered to the eldership, and Spangenberg prudently secured the withdrawal of all excrescences and extravagances.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
The weight of authority is certainly very decidedly in favour of the opinion which identifies this eldership with the presbytery.
From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by David Hay Fleming
But the proper, public, official, authoritative power, is quite denied to the body of the people, furnished with an eldership or destitute thereof.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
It is not probable that Polycarp was at the head of the eldership of Smyrna much earlier.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
