arch-presbyter

Updated: May 23, 2025

The words of Christ, if they may be transferred from their immediate application to the Jewish Synagogue, suppose the contrary; and that highest act of government, the election of the officers and ministers of the Church, was confessedly exercised by the congregations including the Presbyters and Arch-presbyter or Bishop, in the primitive Church.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.