Presbytery
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A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certaindistrict, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish orchurch, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with thepastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches underits care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
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