| There are 312,000 Presbyterians on the island, grouped into 562 congregations and twenty-one presbyteries. |
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| It is in Ravenna that the earliest mosaics are preserved, in temple after temple, in museums, presbyteries, baptistries and churches. |
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| In recent years moderators have spent the rest of their year in office visiting missionaries and liaising with presbyteries. |
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| The local presbyteries are voting this winter and spring on whether to open the door to ordination of gay ministers, elders and deacons. |
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| The invention of the mobile phone has freed priests from their presbyteries. |
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| There are 54 members on this committee, drawn from presbyteries across the country and including a number of past Moderators. |
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| To be added to the church's constitution, the ban must be ratified by a majority of the church's 173 presbyteries before the denomination meets in June. |
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| But some conservatives fear a falling away of members, even if the majority of presbyteries eventually reject and thereby nullify the General Assembly action. |
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| By the 1590s the old church was withering away as former office-holders died, while the presbyteries were taking a more consistent place in church administration. |
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| Beside these posts was a system of church courts of kirk sessions and presbyteries, which dealt with discipline and administration. |
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| By the 1590s Scotland was organized into about fifty presbyteries with about twenty ministers in each. |
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| The Conservative Presbyterian Church was founded in 1940 and has eight presbyteries. |
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| It placed church supervision fully in the hands of groups of elected church leaders, in presbyteries, synods and the general assembly. |
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| Prior to 1729, some presbyteries required candidates for the ministry to profess adherence to the Westminster Confession. |
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| Formerly there were also Synods at regional level, with authority over a group of presbyteries, but these have been abolished. |
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| Often all members of the constituent presbyteries are members of the synod. |
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| Each church then sends representatives or commissioners to presbyteries and further to a general assembly. |
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| In the seventeenth century, legislation enforced the creation and funding of schools in every parish, often overseen by presbyteries of the local kirk. |
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| Public opinion against the Treaty as it passed through the Scottish Parliament was voiced through petitions from shires, burghs, presbyteries and parishes. |
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| Above the sessions exist presbyteries, which have area responsibilities. |
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| The presbyteries are responsible for the ordination of the ministers. |
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| Like the commissioners to presbyteries, the commissioners to synods do not act on instruction from their congregations or presbyteries, but exercise their own judgement. |
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| In 2007 new boundaries and structures was adopted for presbyteries. |
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| However some other churches do not use the synod at all, and the Church of Scotland dissolved its synods in 1993, see List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries. |
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| Presbyteries meet regularly, and all Presbyteries meet at the yearly Synod in May. |
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| The individual churches of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland are each part of one of six Presbyteries. |
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| Presbyteries and the General Assembly elect a moderator each year. |
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