Presbyteries are organized within a geographical region to form a synod.

Groups of local churches are governed by a higher assembly of elders known as the presbytery or classis ; presbyteries can be grouped into a synod, and Presbyteries, along with synods nationwide often join together in a general assembly.

Presbyteries are responsible for the ordination of ministers and for preparing candidates for that office.

Presbyteries are gathered up into one of 13 conferences.

The three Presbyteries are: the East which meets in Bo ' ness and covers central Scotland, South Fife and the Lothians ; the West which meets in Glasgow and covers Strathclyde ; and the North meeting in Aberdeen and Perth covering Tayside, The Highlands, Grampian and the Northern Isles.

( Presbyteries, too, are bound to the constitutional language that excludes demand for adherence to any specifically worded interpretations of a few selected doctrines.

) Presbyteries ( in the case of ministers ) and church sessions ( in the case of elders and deacons ) are free to decide for themselves what acceptable loyalty to the confessions means in their particular situation without being bound to any “ check list ” prescribed by higher governing bodies of the church.

The two Presbyteries are in full communion with each other.

Several attempts were made to remove this from the Book of Order, and in 2011, the Presbyteries of the PC ( USA ) passed Amendment 10-A permitting congregations to ordain elders and deacons and presbyteries to ordain ministers, saying " governing bodies shall be guided by Scripture and the confessions in applying standards to individual candidates ", without reference to the fidelity / chastity provision.

The period from 1945 saw expansion from urban growth and immigration, especially from Presbyterian strongholds such as Scotland and Ireland, as well as Presbyterian and Reformed Church members from the Netherlands, Hungary, and more recently, Taiwan, Ghana, and Korea, the latter for whom two separate " Han Ca " Korean Presbyteries ( East and West ) were established in 1997.

Invitations for the 2007 and 2008 General Assemblies were approved from two Ontario Presbyteries.

Presbyteries differ greatly in their acceptance of candidates from these non-affiliated schools.

Presbyteries and the General Assembly elect a moderator each year.

Presbyteries may be more transparent than bishops in their wielding of power, but they have often proved rather less good at the pastoral care of parish ministers, a problem with which the Church has frequently wrestled.

Presbyteries may be creative in the designation and assignment of duties for their staff.

Presbyteries must meet at least twice a year, but they have the discretion to meet more often and most do.

Presbyteries meet at a regularity between monthly and quarterly, some half-yearly.

In many Presbyteries there is also a ' Presbytery Officer ' who may be ordained or a lay-minister.

Other Presbyteries use this position for mission consultancy work and others for administrative work.

Presbyteries, in turn, send delegates to synods.

The modern UFC is involved in the ecumenical movement in Scotland, and has, at present around 65 congregations in three Presbyteries.

In the following, he was delegate of the Prussian Regional Synod, head of the Presbyteries of the Court, curator of the Reformed College, member of the Society for the Betterment of Detainees and participated at the German Juristical Congress.

Presbyteries were created subject to the Synod.

His " A Peaceable Plea for Paul's Presbytery in Scotland " ( 1642 ) was followed by his Due Right of Presbyteries ( 1644 ), Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication " ( 1648 ) and " A Survey of ' A Survey of that Sum of Church Discipline ' penned by Thomas Hooker ( 1655 ), with not only Hooker, but John Cotton and Richard Mather also writing books against Rutherford's view of church government.

Initial attempts at forming native Presbyteries were futile.

The official nominees for the 2006 Moderator were two laypeople ; voting for Moderator was conducted by all active Ministers ( on their Presbytery Roll ) and Representative Elders in their respective Presbyteries.

Westminster formed as a result of a meeting on Jan. 21, 1852, between the Ohio and Shenango Presbyteries.

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