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St. Louis, Missouri: Elder Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri & The Rev. Cindy Kohlmann [8] 224th GA 2020 Baltimore, Maryland (virtual via Zoom) Elder Elona Street-Stewart & The Rev. Gregory J. Bentley [9] 225th GA 2022 Louisville, Kentucky (hybrid virtual) [10] The Reverend Ruth F. Santana-Grace and The Reverend Shavon Starling-Louis 226th GA 2024
A presbytery is a regional governing body or lower judicatories that is made up of local churches. In official communications, many of these presbyteries use "Presbytery of" in front of their names, for example, "Presbytery of The James."
Session meetings are normally moderated by a called and installed pastor and minutes are recorded by a clerk, who is also an ordained presbyter. If the congregation does not have an installed pastor, the Presbytery appoints a minister member or elected member of the presbytery as moderator with the concurrence of the local church session. [48]
The PCA has a presbytery in Chile with more than five congregations and missions. [135] The Potomac Presbytery proposed to elect a provisional presbytery in the Latin American county of Paraguay with 4–5 congregations and church plants in Asunción and the nearby cities. The Presbytery worked in the country for 15–20 years.
First Presbyterian was the meeting place for both the first presbytery and first synod. The origins of the Presbyterian Church is the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The writings of French theologian and lawyer John Calvin (1509–64) solidified much of the Reformed thinking that came before him in the form of the sermons and ...
Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders.Each local church is governed by a body of elected elders usually called the session (or consistory), though other terms, such as church board, may apply.
The National Presbyterian Church is a Christian congregation of approximately 1,500 members of all ages from the greater metropolitan Washington, D.C., area.The mission statement of the church is "Leading People to Become Faithful Followers of Jesus Christ Together in God's World" [1]
The presbytery is composed of all of the ministers and ruling elders of the various congregations in the regional church, and presbytery meetings are to consist of all ministers and one ruling elder from each respective session. [23] The duties of the presbytery include overseeing evangelism and resolving questions regarding church discipline.