presbytery

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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

Sister Mary Ross, 79, lived in the presbytery next door and was awoken by the blaze.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2022

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

And, by ministers, their ordaining elders in every church, with the consent of that church; but a prelate's collation is not this act of a presbytery.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander