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
You’ve been dinging me doited about that eldership, and we’ll play for’t.
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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 Charles Rogers
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
The ceremonies of ordination are declared to be fasting, earnest prayer, and imposition of the hands of the eldership.
From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by David Hay Fleming
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