Sentence examples for presbytery from inspiring English sources

Ridsdale and Pell lived in the Ballarat East presbytery together for about a year in the early 1970s.

Church higher-ups were anxious to avoid discussing a demand launched by a presbytery in the Highlands, where biblical injunctions against sodomy tend to be taken literally, that all non-heterosexuals be banned from the ministry.

His job was confirmed by the city's presbytery, a convocation of local ministers and elders.

Occasionally, additional columns were used to extend the nave westward, producing a type known as the domed basilica; sometimes the walls separating the eastern ends of the side aisles from the central presbytery were extended westward as substitutes for the two eastern columns upholding the dome, but the essentials of the plan were always retained.

The presbytery is responsible for ordaining, installing, removing, or transferring ministers.

Ordinarily, the people may elect their own pastor, but the presbytery must give its approval and install him in office.

It is controlled by a hierarchy of church courts, from the kirk session (governing the affairs of a congregation) through the presbytery (covering a group of parishes) to the General Assembly, at which clergy and lay representatives meet annually in Edinburgh to discuss key issues relating to Scottish society.

The Presbyterianism of the Scottish immigrants was successfully kept at bay until the time of the English Civil Wars; the Anglican bishoprics in Ireland were well-endowed and powerful, and it was not until 1643 that the first presbytery was established in Belfast.

Once installed, the pastor may not be dismissed by the people or leave the people without consent of the presbytery.

The presbytery also has religious, financial, and legal authority over all the congregations.

It may be a delegated synod to which only a few representatives from each presbytery are sent, or it may be a synod to which all the members of the presbyteries belong.