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Then I called the Presbytery of New York City, and spoke with the financial officer, Simon Lai, who is supposed to look at money donated to and spent by presbyterian churches in New York City.
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Presbytery to be known as the Presbytery of Tuskaloosa, and to embrace the following churches now within its bounds: St. Paul, Oak
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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English style; and Bishop Northwold (1229-1254) took down the east end of the church and lengthened it by the six eastern arches, usually called the Presbytery, with its magnificent eastern façade, in the same style; they were begun A.D. 1234, and finished and dedicated in
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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Among all the institutions of the North a Presbytery is the most characteristic, and affords a standing illustration of the contradictions of a supremely logical people.
Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878
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Among all the institutions of the North a Presbytery is the most characteristic, and affords a standing illustration of the contradictions of a superbly logical people.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878
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Resolved, that the following members of the Presbytery of Orange be set off to form a Presbytery to be known as the Presbytery of Fayetteville, viz.: Rev. Samuel Stanford, Robert Tate, William
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But whether hee intend thereby, to entitle the Presbytery to the Supreme Power Ecclesiasticall in the Common-wealth of Geneva, (and consequently to every Presbytery in every other Common-wealth,) or to Princes, and other Civill
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Starting our perambulation at the = East End =, it will be noticed that the so-called Lady Chapel is actually an enlargement of the choir, such as we find on a much grander scale at Durham or Fountains, and may be compared to the "Presbytery" at Chichester, from which the Lady
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We now direct our attention to the monuments in the Choir, and commence with the first arch on the south side of the Presbytery which is occupied by the once gorgeous monument of Bishop de Luda, or Louth
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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This was called the "Presbytery," or "Sanctuary," a common name at that time for the east end of a church.
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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