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
He was a zealous member of the Free Church, and being admitted to the eldership, was on two occasions sent as a representative to the General Assembly of that body.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Five of them, constituting a majority, formed themselves into a regular opposition; and for several years the Carthaginian Church was distracted by the struggles between the bishop and his eldership.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
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.
SESSION, s. the consistory, or parochial eldership in Scotland.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
