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

"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

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.

The weight of authority is certainly very decidedly in favour of the opinion which identifies this eldership with the presbytery.

From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by Fleming, David Hay

They who were convicted of such offences, were sometimes rebuked in private by an elder, and at other times by the minister in the presence of the eldership.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh