Ecclesiastical polity
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Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure b
The apostles Peter and John laying hands in ordination. Illustration, 1873.
An Anglican deacon, bishop and priest. Priests are usually former deacons in episcopal polity.
The ordination of Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury, 1784.
Cathedral churches like St. Andrews were incompatible with the presbyterian polity taught by John Knox. This statue stands in St. Giles, still called a cathedral despite no longer serving as an episcopal seat.
Middle judicatory
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A middle judicatory is an administrative structure or organization found in religious denominations between the local congregation and the widest or highest national or international level. While the
A meeting of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Attendees at a meeting of a Welsh presbytery in Berriew in 1940.
Clergy convene at a synod of the Anglican Diocese of Ndokwa in 2022.
Laypersons participate in the 2018 synod of the Anglican Diocese of CANA East.