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
This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority
The westernmost portion of the chancel Doors in the screens which encompass the chancel on its north and south sides open into the presbytery and it is therefore an important ceremonial landmark in the Sarum Rite; various processions enter or leave through these north-south presbytery doors