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- Presbytery - n. - A body of elders in the early Christian church.
- Presbytery - n. - A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
- Presbytery - n. - The Presbyterian religion of polity.
- Presbytery - n. - That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.
- Presbytery - n. - The residence of a priest or clergyman.
- Presbyter - n. - A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.
- Classis - n. - An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
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- G4244 πρεσβυτέριον - 4244 πρεσβυτέριον - ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΈΡΙΟΝ - - presbytérion - pres-boo-ter'-ee-on - neuter of a presumed derivative of πρεσβύτερος; the order of elders, i.e. (specially), Israelite Sanhedrin or Christian "presbytery":--(estate of) elder(-s), presbytery. - Noun Neuter - greek
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