What's the difference between presbyterian and presbytery?

Presbyterian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of a communion so governed.
  • (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Duncan, a Liberian national, was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital even though his fever spiked on his first visit to the emergency room on 26 September, according to his medical records obtained by the Associated Press.
  • (2) Clinical, haematological and biochemical aspects of a new family with heterozygous haemoglobin Presbyterian [beta 108 (G 10) Asn----Lys] are described.
  • (3) Texas Health Presbyterian hospital is reviewing how the situation would have been handled if all staff had been aware of Duncan’s circumstances.
  • (4) A review of 15 cases of pancreas transplantation at the Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh showed that all of the neurologic complications occurred outside of the pancreas transplantation surgery itself.
  • (5) In a letter to assembly men and women the Presbyterian church said it was "not merely an issue of conscience for Christian people and churches, but a very significant one for the whole of society".
  • (6) Seeing this legislation come out of a state I know and love has been painful.” Standing next to him, Linda Whitworth-Reed, a Presbyterian reverend in Little Rock, agreed.
  • (7) The Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center began a pre-employment drug testing program for housestaff physicians in 1987.
  • (8) He was admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas on Sunday.
  • (9) Analysis of operative results by a modification of the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's lumbar spine analysis system demonstrated that 88 of the patients attained excellent or good results and 12 attained poor or fair results.
  • (10) Sixteen of 80 patients less than age 21 years with idiopathic dystonia seen by the Movement Disorder Group at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York were treated with baclofen.
  • (11) A pilot clinical trial on radiotherapy of glioblastoma with and without hyperbaric oxygen was performed at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
  • (12) To reassess the epidemiology and treatment of listeriosis in the United States, we reviewed greater than 120 cases of listeriosis from four medical centers in three geographically separated cities: Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center (LAC-USCMC); Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago; the University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago; and Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • (13) He joked that the enemy the US is confronting “is not radical Presbyterian terrorism”.
  • (14) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
  • (15) Two days later he went to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital.
  • (16) This is one reason why the great majority of Chinese Christians are Protestants of one sort or another, most deriving ultimately from Presbyterian missions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • (17) In a 12-year retrospective review, we identified 187 patients with Down's syndrome admitted to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
  • (18) As every other major denomination – Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian – rapidly shrunk, these congregations almost doubled in size.
  • (19) DNA haplotype constellations of the beta-globin gene cluster have been analyzed in German families with hemoglobinopathies (Hb Freiburg, Hb Köln, Hb Presbyterian) and beta-thalassemias.
  • (20) Ninety-four children ranging from 3 months to 19 years of age underwent cardiac valve replacement at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center from 1965 to 1985.

Presbytery


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.
  • (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
  • (n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.
  • (n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.
  • (n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the past year, 29 presbyteries have approved such a move, and 19 opposed it.
  • (2) This decision was in line with a majority of presbyteries who voted in favour of such a move.” Because the debate predates the legalisation of gay marriage, the proposed change mentions only civil partnerships, not same-sex marriages.
  • (3) Furness said Ronald Mulkearns, who was made bishop of Ballarat in 1971, moved Ridsdale due to complaints over “inappropriate behaviour” including reports from two parents that a boy was living at the Mortlake presbytery with him.
  • (4) Congregations and presbyteries should think about how they might mobilise to ‘adopt a family’ and support them in their practical and human needs,” the church’s president, Stuart McMillan, said.
  • (5) Owners Arnaud and Armelle Raillard have an eye for all things arty and have tastefully renovated this former presbytery with limewashed walls, warm colours and funky furniture.
  • (6) This included 31 of the church’s presbyteries endorsing the move to 14 who opposed it.

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