Thomas the Presbyter (fl. 640) was a Syriac Orthodox priest from the vicinity of Reshaina in Upper Mesopotamia who wrote the Syriac Chronicle of 640, which...

John the Presbyter was an obscure figure of the early Church who is either distinguished from or identified with the Apostle John and/or John of Patmos...

John (Latin: Presbyter Ioannes) was a legendary Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries...

to the nearby hill, where the soldiers speared Thomas, killing him. After Thomas' death, Syphorus was elected the first presbyter of Mazdai by the surviving...

of which (Thomas the Presbyter) contains what Hoyland believes is the "first explicit reference to Muhammad in a non-Muslim source:" In the year 945,...

ISBN 9780198225683. Thomas the Presbyter, Chronicle Fragment on the Arab Conquests, 636 Chronicle of 819 Conrad, Lawrence I. (1988). "Seven and the Tasbīʿ: On the Implications...

Miscellanea, the clarifying combined form mawtānā d sharʿūṭā (plague of tumors) is found. The Chronicle of 640 of Thomas the Presbyter dates the "first plague"...

Yarmouk, contradicting the Muslim accounts of his death.[page needed] Thomas the Presbyter Doctrina Jacobi Robert Hoyland: Seeing Islam as Others Saw It, p...

believe are the "most important" of the contemporary sources. These include the Chronicle of 724 by Thomas the Presbyter, composed in 640. The Chronicle...

Doctrina Iacobi 636 Fragment on the Arab Conquests 639 Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem 640 Thomas the Presbyter 640 Homily on the Child Saints of Babylon 643...

alongside the Muslims from the start, commanded the right and left wings of the Muslim army. The "Tayyaye d-Mhmt" were reported by Thomas the Presbyter as fighting...

the Church of England as a bishop. The first priest (presbyter) that Bishop Claggett ordained was the Rev. Walter Dulaney Addison, who first served in Queen...

already a priest (Greek presbuteros) or presbyter in the Church of England, some interpret this consecration as the equivalent of episcopal consecration...

by Pope Leo X. In 1517, Leo X made him cardinal presbyter of San Sisto in Rome for his services. In the following year, he became Archbishop of Palermo...

1960, four presbyters (P John Varghese, P I Mathal, CM Vaghese and KO John) were suspended. This led to the establishment of the St. Thomas Evangelical...

refers only to presbyters and pastors (parish priests). The church's doctrine also sometimes refers to all baptised (lay) members as the "common priesthood"...

of the bishops/presbyters as rulers of the church. The epistle mentions episkopoi (overseers, bishops) or presbyteroi (elders, presbyters) as the upper...

the Culdees practiced Christian monasticism, a key feature of Celtic Christianity in the region, with a presbyter exercising "authority within the institution...

made presbyter the next year. Oommen was elected as Bishop of Madhya Kerala Diocese of Church of South India in February 2011. He was ordained as the 12th...

objections to receiving the Eucharist, from any presbyter of the United Church, given that no non-episcopal ordained presbyter would minister to a congregation...

the dead, as they were before the Reformation, as Anglicans they were now just presbyters, or evangelists. This gave rise to some controversy. In the...

from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2017. Reese, Thomas J. (1998). Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic...

as a companion of Jesus, John the Presbyter. Some Christian scholars since medieval times separate the disciple from the writer of Revelation. John is...

object of dread to the demons and he was ordained presbyter over the monks at Scetis. After a life spent in this manner, he died at the age of seventy-five...

with Thomas Coke, a presbyter of the Church of England, and with others, and on 2 Sept., 1784, he ordained Coke bishop, after ordaining Thomas Vasey...

John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, although there is no consensus on how many of these may actually be the same individual. The exact...

person ordained as a deacon, priest (i.e. presbyter), and then bishop is understood to hold the fullness of the ministerial priesthood, given responsibility...

the Chronicle of Thomas the Presbyter gives 631/632 (AG 943), and the Zuqnin Chronicle places it in 643/644 (AG 955). Soon after his ascension to the...

Caius, Presbyter of Rome (also known as Gaius) was a Christian author who lived and wrote towards the beginning of the 3rd century. Only fragments of...

The Form of Presbyterial Church Government is a document drawn up by the Westminster Assembly dealing with Presbyterian polity. It forms part of the Westminster...