the group of pastors and deacons who are invited by a local congregation to examine a candidate for ordination and make recommendation to the church concerning the wisdom of ordaining such a person
{i} area of the church set aside for the clergy (usually the eastern section); priest's house, parsonage; ecclesiastical court
a governing body consisting of all the ministers, in number not fewer than 12, and at least one ruling elder from each church, within a certain geographical district that includes at least 12 churches There are 174 presbyteries
A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor