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

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 Killen, W. D. (William Dool)

I took the eldership at your hands, I know, saying nothing of the dark blot that soiled the past.

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.

It was concerning this business that Taras very nearly lost his eldership by reason of a word of sensible advice.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

In spite of Hung's line of ancestry and his father's eldership, they were far from being well supplied with the good things of this life; in fact, their freehold was barely sufficient to support them.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.