Presbyter in a sentence

The Beni Kedem Highlander bagpipers and drummers will play at service to commemorate the churches’ Scottish heritage and the sermon will be given by the Rev. Dr. Ed Thompson, General Presbyter of the West Virginia Presbytery.

Although all other mysteries may be performed by a presbyter, ordination may only be conferred by a bishop, and ordination of a bishop may only be performed by several bishops together.

An obscure presbyter of the name of Pistus was immediately chosen by the Arians to succeed him, when fresh news arrived that filled the orthodox party with hope.

Between their placement in temporary camps and his suicide, he gave his handwritten Nachlass to the Egyptologist and presbyter Hans Bonnet, who saved as much of them as possible, despite the destruction of his house by a bomb.

Both follow the format of other personal letters of the era; in both the author self-identifies as "the Presbyter", Painter, 52 a term which literally means "the elder"; Dodd, 155 and both deal with themes of hospitality and conflict within the church.

Brown, 11–12 By the end of the fourth century the Presbyter (author of 2 and 3 John) was thought to be a different person than the Apostle John.

Each District is headed by a 'Chair', a presbyter who oversees the district.

He argues that in Clement of Rome ministerial activity is liturgical: the undifferentiated 'presbyter-bishops' are to "make offerings to the Lord at the right time and in the right places" something which is simply not defined by the evangelists.

He rose to no higher rank in the church than that of presbyter.

He tonsured the young Nicholas as a reader and later ordained him a presbyter (priest).

His original name was Thascius; he took the additional name Caecilius in memory of the presbyter to whom he owed his conversion.

Many years later, Edward Stillingfleet 's Irenicon led him to decide that ordination could be valid when performed by a presbyter rather than a bishop.

Personal oversight of the Methodist Church is exercised by the President of the Conference, a presbyter elected to serve for a year by the Methodist Conference; such oversight is shared with the Vice-President, who is always a deacon or layperson.

Priesthood In 361 Gregory returned to Nazianzus and was ordained a presbyter by his father, who wanted him to assist with caring for local Christians.

Rozen, p. 43. The presbyter of Duklja also marked the event: "By that time among the Bulgarian people rose one Samuel, who proclaimed himself emperor.

Schnackenburg, 270 One possible alternative view of the epistle's authorship arises from a fragment written by Papias of Hierapolis and quoted by Eusebius which mentions a man named "the Presbyter John".

Since in the primitive church the offices of presbyter and episkopos were identical, many Puritans held that this was the only form of government the church should have.

Teaching elders are seminary trained and ordained as a presbyter and set aside on behalf of the whole denomination to the ministry of Word and Sacrament.

The bishop selected a senior presbyter as archpriest who acted as his official deputy in all ritual matters and as head of the familia.

The British Methodist Conference has two distinct orders of presbyter and deacon.