Noun:

पादरी सत्तावादियों का संप्रदाय (वह जो किसी जिले में न्‍यायालय के रूप में कार्य करें), प्रेज्‍़वीटर-संप्रदाय, पूजास्‍थान, गिरजे का पूर्वान्‍त्‍य भाग,

presbytery's Usage Examples:

The presbytery consists of all the ministers and a selection of the ruling elders from the congregations within a prescribed area.

Matters about which there is any doubt or difficulty, or division of opinion in the session, may be carried for settlement to the next higher court, the presbytery.

He holds his office ad vitam aut culpam; he cannot demit it or be deprived, of it without consent of the presbytery.

The ordination and induction of elders in some branches of the Church is the act of the kirk-session; in others it is the act of the presbytery.

The ordination and induction of ministers is always the act of a presbytery.

When satisfied, the presbytery proceeds with the ordination and induction.

But, in contrast with Congregationalism, when they elect and "call" a minister their action has to be sustained by the presbytery, which judges of his fitness for that particular sphere, of the measure of the congregation's unanimity, and of the adequacy of financial support.

The ecclesiastical unit in episcopacy is a diocese, comprising many churches and ruled by a prelate; in congregationalism it is a single church, self-governed and entirely independent of all others; in Presbyterianism it is a presbytery or council composed of ministers and elders representing all the churches within a specified district.

In 1588 he was chosen by the presbytery of Edinburgh one of its commissioners to the General Assembly.

The work of the presbytery is episcopal.

Synonyms:

church building, church, edifice, building,

Antonyms:

disassembly,