Moderator of the General Assembly
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title:
Moderator of the General Assembly
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The moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a Presbyterian or Reformed church. Kirk sessions and presbyteries may also style the chairperson as moderator. The Oxford Dictionary states that a Moderator may be a "Presbyterian minister presiding over an ecclesiastical body". Presbyterian churches are ordered by a presbyterian polity, including a hierarchy of councils or courts of elders, from the local church (kirk) Session through presbyteri
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Chairperson of the highest court of a Presbyterian or Reformed church
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderator_of_the_General_Assembly
date created:
2005-07-13T09:41:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T18:10:04Z
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