presbyter in English

noun
1
an elder or minister of the Christian Church.
Here is (in New Testament terms) the most senior presbyter in the whole Anglican church, and he will be busy raising uncomfortable questions about the teaching of the Word of God.

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1. Hieromartyr Basil was a presbyter in Ancyra, Galatia

2. Page 162 - nemo Christianorum presbyter, non mathematicus, non haruspex, non Aliptes

3. Bede describes Peter as both abbot and presbyter, a word usually translated as priest.

4. 3 nemo illic archisynagogus Iudaeorum, nemo Samarites, nemo Christianorum presbyter non mathematicus, non haruspex, non Aliptes

5. Summi est momenti pro vita spirituali quae per ministeriale explicatur exercitium, ut presbyter indesinenter renovet atque profundiorem efficiat conscientiam esse se Christi Iesu administrum, idque per sacramentalem consecrationem et per Conformationem Eius qui Ecclesiae est Caput et Pastor.

6. It states: Ego infra scriptus Presbyter & Collegii Grassinorum in Academia Parisiensi Primaries, testor 'Ingenuum Adolescentem Jo Ludovicum de Garibal secundum graca'---Orationis praemium in prima Classe iure merito cosecutum illoque donatum esse Die '28.' Augusti, Anni millesimi sexcentesimi quinquagesimi 'septimi' in solemni praemiorum

7. Arianism, a theological system in the early Christian Church, named after Arius, a presbyter at Alexandria.In opposition to his bishop Alexander, Arius asserted that there was a time when the Son was not coequal, since the Father who begot must be before the Son who was begotten, and the latter therefore could not be eternal.