Presiding elder

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(Meth. Ch.)	an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district.
	See under 2d Elder.

See also: Elder Presiding

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One day, in the sick chamber of Father Ephraim, who had been forty years the presiding elder over the Shaker settlement at Goshen, there was an assemblage of several of the chief men of the sect.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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