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Presbytery

noun
(pl. presbyteries)
1.
Building reserved for the officiating clergy.






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"Presbytery" Quotes from Famous Books



... the next to be established, was formally organized November 21, 1841, in a little frame school house located on H Street near 14th Northwest. The moving spirit in this undertaking was John F. Cook.[18] He had been received as a licentiate by the Presbytery of the District of Columbia on the twenty-first of October of that same year. Eighteen persons took part in this organization. Of these John F. Cook and Alfred A. Cook had been official members of the Union Bethel, now the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The pioneer ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various



Words linked to "Presbytery" :   edifice, building, church building, church



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