Presbyter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRESBYTER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an elder in the early Christian church, also PRESBYTE
• an elder or minister of the Christian Church.
• (in Presbyterian Churches) an elder.
• (in episcopal Churches) a minister of the second order, under the authority of a bishop.
• (in some episcopal Churches) official with administrative and priestly duties
• An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1.
• One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also priest.
• A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.
• A Presbyterian.
• an elder in the Presbyterian Church
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a member of the governing body of an early Christian church

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How to use PRESBYTER in a sentence

• Among the noted theologians of this Christian capital was a presbyter who preached in the principal church.
• But the daring presbyter was not silenced, and obtained powerful and numerous adherents.
• The governing power and obligation over the flock is essential to the office of a Pastor or Presbyter as instituted by Christ.
• It should be remembered that Papias is not giving his own statement but that of the Presbyter John, which dates back to a time contemporary with the composition of the Gospel.
• Papias is repeating what he had heard from the Presbyter John, which would seem to take us up to the very fountainhead of evangelical composition.
• Ordained presbyter in 364, he labored in founding religious institutions of various kinds.
• We proceeded direct to the house of the chief presbyter, to whom the letters of commission were addressed, and were received by him with open arms.
• The presbyter would fain have summoned a number of his divines for a discussion this evening.
• Our master, John the Presbyter, does well to be proud of him.
• Its presiding presbyter called bishop, and invested with additional power, ib.
• A bishop ordained by a bishop and a presbyter, 586 Difference between ancient and modern bishops, 587 CHAPTER X.
• It is an instructive fact that no proof can be given, from the sacred record, of the ordination either by the Twelve or by the Seventy, of even one presbyter or pastor.
• He had lived for years in Rome, and we have good reason to believe that he was a presbyter of the Church of the Imperial city.
• If the measure had the sanction of these foreign brethren, they were of course prepared to resort to it at home on the demise of their presiding presbyter.
• It is not at all probable that he became the senior presbyter long before the middle of the second century.
• And presbyter Daniel, filled with the grace of God, came and gifted Inis Angin which was in his possession, to God and to Saint Kiaranus for ever.
• The presbyter marvelled thereat, and repented, and did obeisance to Ciaran, and gave the island to him.
• But it is probable that in the original form of the story the presbyter Daniel was a fictitious ecclesiastic, perhaps the Evil One disguised.
• The will of priest, and prince, and presbyter, and people, must be set aside in the presence of the will of her sole Sovereign.
• For this, however, Irenaeus was not able to appeal to Scripture texts, but only to statements of a presbyter.
• Orosius was a Christian presbyter, and, while defending Christianity, paints a lamentable picture of the condition of the pagan world.
• Jerome, the presbyter of Bethlehem, was then universally celebrated.

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