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presbyter 英/ ?prezb?t?(r) / 美/ ?prezb?t?r / - n.（长老会的）长老；（英国圣公会的）牧师；祭司；发起人
1 ?长老 Mareotis城有18位长老（Presbyters）和20位执事（Deacons）出席并签字。亚力山大的名字出现在亚力山大主教名单的第一个，而亚他那修的名字也出现在亚力山大执事中。
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CANON XXXIII: None of the foreign Bishops, or Presbyters, or Deacons shall be received without letters commendatory. 法令三十三：若无推荐信，不得接纳任何外地的主教、或司铎、或执事。 - 2
We'll see later that, in this period, bishops seem to actually have been elected by the people, at least by the presbyters. 我们会看到后来…在这个时期，主教似乎是人民自己选出来的，至少也是长老选出来的。 - 3
We saw presbyters and deacons,and bishops in a certain sense, in the Pastoral Epistles,but they weren't carefully formed into a three-tiered institution of offices. 《教牧书信》上就看到有长老，执事，主教，但这三个职位在那本书里还没形成,清晰的三层等级结构。
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