John the Presbyter appears in a fragment by Papias, a 2nd century bishop of Hierapolis, who published an " Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord " ( Greek — Kyriakôn logiôn exêgêsis ) in five volumes.

" and 3 John, in comparison, are written by the mysterious " elder " or " Presbyter ".

Heinemann was an elder ( Presbyter ) in Wilhelm Graeber's parish in Essen when Graeber was sacked in 1933 by the new church authorities who co-operated with the Nazis.

* Presbyter, or priest, may also be abbreviated as Prb or Pbr

In the 6th century, the Decretum Gelasianum argued that Second and Third John have a separate author known as " John, a priest " ( see John the Presbyter ).

The parish priest, Presbyter Melitón Martín Villalta, blessed the ceremony.

The legends of Prester John ( also Presbyter Johannes ) were popular in Europe from the 12th through the 17th centuries, and told of a Christian patriarch and king said to rule over a Christian nation lost amidst the Muslims and pagans in the Orient.

Additionally, a kernel of the tradition may have been drawn from the shadowy early Christian figure John the Presbyter of Syria, whose existence is first inferred by the ecclesiastical historian and bishop Eusebius of Caesarea based on his reading of earlier church fathers.

On 6 April 1805, having gathered all his troops, General Christophe took all male prisoners to the local cemetery and proceeded to slit their throats, among them Presbyter Vásquez and 20 more priests.

Additionally, an Executive Presbyter ( sometimes designated as General Presbyter, Pastor to Presbytery, Transitional Presbyter ) is often elected as a staff person to care for the administrative duties of the presbytery, often with the additional role of a pastor to the pastors.

A fourth century Council of Rome decreed that John the Evangelist should be distinguished from John the Presbyter.

John the Presbyter is an obscure figure of the early Church who is either distinguished from or identified with the Apostle John, by some also John the Divine.

The Presbyter Julian and the Bishop Longinus conducted a mission among the Nabataeans, and Justinian attempted to strengthen Christianity in Yemen by despatching a bishop from Egypt.

Early medieval writer Theophilus Presbyter, believed to be the Benedictine monk and metalworker Roger of Helmarshausen, wrote a treatise in the early-to-mid-12th century that includes original work and copied information from other sources, such as the Mappae clavicula and Eraclius, De dolorous et artibus Romanorum.

The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja ( Presbyter Diocleas ), also known as the Chronicle of Dioclea is a medieval chronicle from Duklja.

It has been generally agreed that this Presbyter included in his work folklore and literary material from Slavic sources which he translated into Latin.

The youthful conquests of King John the Presbyter ( also called Prester John ) united most of the human world into a single realm, but by the beginning of the first book, the former conqueror is too old and feeble to stop his sons from quarrelling.

The Church historian Eusebius of Caesarea, through whose quotation the above fragment survives, was the first to unequivocally distinguish a Presbyter John from the Apostle John.

Madonna as Seat of Wisdom, 1199, inscribed as by Presbyter Martinus, from the Camaldolese abbey in Borgo San Sepolcro near Arezzo, Italy

: PG 120: Anonymous on the Life of Nilus the Younger, Theodorus Bishop of Iconium, Leo Presbyter, Leo Grammaticus, Joannes Presbyter, Epiphanius of Jerusalem monk, Patriarch Alexius of Constantinople, Demetrius Syncellus Bishop of Cyzicus, Nicetas Chartophylax of Nicaea, Patriarch Michael Cerularius of Constantinople, Samonas Bishop of Gaza, Leo of Ohrid Archbishop of Bulgaria, Nicetas Pectoratus ( Stethatos ) presbyter and monk of Monastery of Stoudios, Joannes Bishop of Euchaita, Patriarch Joannes Xiphilinus of Constantinople, Joannes Deacon of Constantinople, Symeon the Younger

: ` And this the Presbyter used to say is in the plural implying John the Elder would employ this argument multiple times in defense of Mark's Gospel: " Mark, being the recorder of Peter, wrote accurately but not in order whatever he remembered of the things either said or done by the Lord ; for he had neither heard the Lord nor followed him, but later, as I said, Peter, who used to make teachings according to the cheias, special kind of anecdote but not making as it were a systematic composition of the Lord's sayings ; so that Mark did not err at all when he wrote certain things just as he had recalled.

Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.

However this is a matter of debate, with some attributing authorship to John of Patmos or John the Presbyter.

The most widely accepted view is that-whether or not the same man wrote all the Johannine literature-it all came out of the same community in Asia Minor, which had some connection to John the Evangelist, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter.

Presbyter Mercurius is found on a fragment of an ancient ciborium, and several of the marble slabs which enclose the schola cantorum bear upon them, in the style of the sixth century, the monogram of Johannes.

In particular, he heard the account of Polycarp's discussion with " John the Presbyter " and with others who had seen Jesus.

This is assumed by some to be John the Presbyter.

By the end of the fourth century the Presbyter ( author of 2 and 3 John ) was thought to be a different person to the Apostle John.

Caius may be this Pope, or Caius the Presbyter.

The flywheel as a general mechanical device for equalizing the speed of rotation is, according to the American medievalist Lynn White, recorded in the De diversibus artibus ( On various arts ) of the German artisan Theophilus Presbyter ( ca.

And also if any follower of the Presbyters happened to come, I would inquire for the sayings of the Presbyters, what Andrew said, or what Peter said, or what Philip or what Thomas or James or what John or Matthew or any other of the Lord's disciples, and for the things which other of the Lord's disciples, and for the things which Aristion and the Presbyter John, the disciples of the Lord, were saying.

File: Presbyter Martinus Madonna als Sedes Sapientiae. jpg | Presbyter Martinus: Madonna as Seat of Wisdom, Italy, 1199

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Saint Valentine the Presbyter is celebrated on July 6 and Hieromartyr Saint Valentine ( Bishop of Interamna, Terni in Italy ) is celebrated on July 30.

The emperor's generosity reached such an extent that it was seen as a corrupting factor by even Orthodox clerics, like Cosmas Presbyter.

The term priest is derived from the Greek presbyter ( πρεσβύτερος, presbýteros, elder or senior ), but is often used in the sense of sacerdos in particular, i. e., for clergy performing ritual within the sphere of the sacred or numinous communicating with the gods on behalf of the community.

The words presbyter, and priest derive from Greek πρεσβύτερος ( presbuteros ), the comparative form of πρέσβυς ( presbus ), " old man ".

Much of the doctrinal confusion on this matter is caused by the difference between the Greek words ἱερεύς ( hiereus meaning " sacred one ") and πρεσβύτερος ( presbyteros meaning " one with elderhood "), which are usually both translated in English with the word " priest ".

The word presbyterium is the Latinised form of the Greek πρεσβυτέριον ( presbuterion ), " council of elders, presbytery ", from Greek πρεσβύτερος ( presbuteros ), the comparative form of πρέσβυς ( presbus ), " elder ".

It contained translations of certain words — for example Tyndale used " elder " rather than " priest " for the Greek " presbuteros "— and some footnotes which challenged Catholic doctrine.

The word derives from the Greek presbuteros meaning " elder ".

He is the cousin of Achilles, the most remembered Greek warrior, and is the elder half-brother of Teucer.

The word " priest " is ultimately from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for " elder ", especially elders of Jewish or Christian communities in Late Antiquity.

Presbyterian denominations derive their name from the Greek word presbýteros (), " elder.

It was a Greek city, and one of the latest of all the cities in Sicily that could claim a purely Greek origin, having been founded by the elder Dionysius in 396 or 395 BC.

* " Bishop " ( Koine Greek " episcopos ") and " elder " ( Koine Greek " presbyteros ") are synonymous terms.

Defining the difference between the Greek quest for knowledge and the quests of the elder civilizations, such as the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, has long been a topic of study by theorists of civilization.

Gregoras remained loyal to the elder Andronicus to the last, but after his death he succeeded in gaining the favour of his grandson, by whom he was appointed to conduct the unsuccessful negotiations ( for a union of the Greek and Latin churches ) with the ambassadors of Pope John XXII ( 1333 ).

He succeeded to the throne in 1947, on the death of his childless elder brother, King George II, during the Greek Civil War ( between Greek Communists and the non-communist Greek government ).

As a young officer, he was positioned, along with his elder brother, in the service of his father ; and he accompanied the latter at the head of the Greek First Division during the capture of Thessaloniki in 1912.

In 1906, Marc traveled with his elder brother Paul, a Byzantine expert, to Saloniki, Mount Athos, and various other Greek locations.

* Julius Bassus, said by the elder Plinius to have written a medical work in Greek.

The Greek National Committee of the said Federation, which has been effective throughout the Balkans, also published a press release to denounce what it felt was the BHHRG's impostures, while others accused it of " nam itself so as to usurp the prestige of its elder ".

The word presbyopia comes from the Greek word presbys ( πρέσβυς ), meaning " old man " or " elder ", and the Neo-Latin suffix-opia, meaning " sightedness ", giving rise to the laymen's definition often seen in consumer articles or medical glossaries, " old eyes ".

Due to the renunciation by his elder brother Ludwig of all his rights to the Greek succession and since the Greek Constitution forbade the sovereign to be ruler of another country ( Ludwig became King of Bavaria ), Leopold technically succeeded upon his brother's renunciation to the rights of the deposed Otto I, King of Greece.

The elder is also required to be male according to 1 Timothy 3: 2 and Titus 1: 6 ( the Greek translated as " husband of one wife " here literally means: " a one woman man " expressing that an elder is to be a male ).