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Grant said the presbytery doesn’t have a formal security program for its churches and schools but that members have worked together to share best practices and improve safety.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Marek Mielewczyk was a 13-year-old altar boy when a priest asked him to come to his presbytery.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2019

For the first time since they shared the St Alipius presbytery at Ballarat in the 1970s, George Pell will be back under the same roof as the worst of the worst.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2019

The local presbytery of the Presbyterian Church USA asked its leaders last year to embark on a period of self-assessment.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2017

But the usual situation of the Lady Chapel, at the east end of the choir or presbytery, proves nothing of the kind.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

In the lead-up to the debate, a report to the General Assembly showed that 29 of 42 presbyteries supported the change, which would also allow Kirk buildings to be used for gay weddings.

From BBC ● May 23, 2022

Ahead of the vote, a report to the General Assembly showed that 29 of 42 presbyteries supported the change, which would also allow Kirk buildings to be used for gay weddings.

From BBC ● May 20, 2022

The draft was passed by voice vote and sent to the church's 188 presbyteries for ratification.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the year past, Presbyterian pacifists worked to get two-thirds of the Church's 276 presbyteries to vote to delete from its Confession of Faith the following: "Christians may lawfully under the New Testament, wage war."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thereupon the Kentucky synod, over the protest of Calvin Campbell and several others, suspended them; leaving it to their respective presbyteries to restore them upon satisfactory proof of repentance.

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt