| It tells us that heaven's worship features white robed presbyters, choral and instrumental music, and incense. |
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| Although we may not realize it, elders, or presbyters, were some of the most important figures in the early church. |
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| The deacon is defined in relation to bishops and presbyters, helping as a minister of word, liturgy, and charity. |
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| The commissioner gave permission for organizing presbyters ' meetings or for reproducing scarce printed materials. |
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| The Puritan-founded Massachusetts colonies opposed presbyters almost as much as the pope. |
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| The relatively recent controversial permissions to remarry the divorced and make women presbyters arguably had biblical warrant, though minorities disputed this. |
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| In the Lutheran churches with which Anglicans are now in full communion, confirmation-laying on of hands-has historically been administered by presbyters. |
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| Only baptised males are ordained to holy orders as bishops, presbyters and deacons, or admitted to the public teaching office of reader. |
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| We set apart a Bishop to his work by a joint laying on of hands of a Bishop and the presbyters. |
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| Ordinary presbyters are in turn overseen by a superintendent, who is the most senior minister in a circuit. |
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| As in the West, baptism was delegated to presbyters, but so, too, was the chrismation rite. |
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| The two orders are equal in status, with presbyters and deacons each serving a distinct role in the ministry of the Methodist Church. |
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| The Methodist Church has allowed ordination of women as presbyters since 2 July 1974, at the Methodist Conference in Bristol. |
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| Methodist presbyters are usually given pastoral charge of several local churches in a circuit. |
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| The church does not ordain women as bishops, presbyters, or deacons. |
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| He also ordained Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey as presbyters. |
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| They sought to recreate the pattern of church life recorded in Scripture, without vestments and prelates, when church government was in the hands of presbyters. |
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| Some are called and ordained to this occupation as presbyters or deacons. |
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