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Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.

Deacon :: Deacon (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and

Presbyteries :: Presbyteries (pl. ) of Presbyter.

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1..

Presbyterium :: Presbyterium (n.) Same as Presbytery, 4..

Classis :: 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..

Bishopric :: Bishopric (n.) The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter..

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.

Consistorian :: Consistorian (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.

Seceder :: Seceder (n.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called..

Presbyterate :: Presbyterate (n.) A presbytery; also, presbytership..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.

Presbyte :: Presbyte (n.) Same as Presbyope.

Sabellian :: Sabellian (n.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father..

Presbyteress :: Presbyteress (n.) A female presbyter.

Presbytership :: Presbytership (n.) The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.

Prester :: Prester (n.) A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.

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