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

It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through 144 water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

"I wudna wonder if ye didna come yont to tell me aboot the eldership," he said slowly.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

Another memory cherished in the monastery was that of the famous Father Varsonofy, who was only recently dead and had preceded Father Zossima in the eldership.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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