kirk session वाक्य

The result was that, although civil penalties no longer backed up its pronouncements, Kirk sessions and synods functioned much as before.
Kirk sessions were able to apply religious sanctions, such as excommunication and denial of baptism, to enforce godly behaviour and obedience.
In addition to the kirk sessions and general sessions of the church, there were guilds, trades'societies and town councils.
This is a practical manifestation of the protestant doctrine of Moderator of the Kirk Session sits as a chairman of the elders primus inter pares.
On Monday 20 May 2013, the Church of Scotland's General Assembly voted to provide Kirk Sessions with the authority to select LGB ministers.

Under the Kirk session of St George's, Edinburgh, he began, in 1835, the work of gathering a congregation in Young Street.
It is the presbyteries which have oversight of parishes and pastoral responsibility for parish ministers, and the Kirk Sessions of the individual parishes are subordinated to them.
The Presbytery is the intermediate court of the church, subject to the General Assembly and responsible for the oversight of Kirk Sessions ( at a congregational level .)
In the seventeenth century the pursuit of witchcraft was largely taken over by the kirk sessions and was often used to attack superstitious and Catholic practices in Scottish society.
Women were disciplined in kirk sessions and civil courts for stereotypical offences including witch hunts that occurred after the Reformation and in which women were the largest group of victims.