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John_C said:
I just heard that term, so I look it up in the dictionary. Is it just another word for Prebytery or is it an official sub-group within a Presbytery? Maybe a Reformed non-Presbyterian body uses it.
When Calvin's Genevan church order was carried to Scotland by John Knox, it evolved into the Presbyterianism that, in essentials, is still practiced today. Individual local congregations elect their own elders, including the minister, who together govern the church as a session (or consistory in certain Reformed churches). The minister (or teaching elder), who is called by the local church and who usually serves as moderator of the session, is, however, ordained and disciplined by the next level of church organization, the presbytery (or classis), which administers groups of churches in one area. Presbyterianism

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