presbyters 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. 21 Were there, however, official “old men” or elders or presbyters in the primitive Christian congregation?

2. Anglicans accept a threefold order of ministry, consisting of bishops, priests or presbyters, and deacons

3. Established primarily to relieve the bishops and presbyters of their more secular and invidious duties, notably in distributing the alms of the faithful, we need not do more than recall the large place occupied by the Agapae, or love feasts, in the early worship of the

4. —Just as among the deacons of the bishop’s church one stood out as the special assistant and representative of the bishop, and, as archdeacon, acquired a jurisdiction of his own, so do we find since the fourth century in numerous dioceses an Archpriest, or head of the college of presbyters, who aided and represented the bishop in the discharge of his liturgical and religious