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

The senior minister ceased to preside over the eldership; and the Church was no longer governed, as heretofore, by the "blessed presbyters."

From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)

It was given at first to every president of the eldership, because he was, in point of fact, the father, or senior member, of the judicatory.

From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)

And the chief priest coming, and those with him, called the Sanhedrim together, and all the eldership of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

From The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. by Sawyer, Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose)

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.