An elder, in many Methodist churches, is an ordained minister that has the responsibilities to preach and teach, preside at the celebration of the sacraments...

administrative or oversight role Elder (Methodist), an ordained minister with responsibilities to preach and teach Elder (Anglican), a learned minister...

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th...

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings...

ordained the first Methodist elders for America in 1784. Under the leadership of its first bishops, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, the Methodist Episcopal Church...

superintendent (DS), also known as a presiding elder, in many Methodist denominations, is a minister (specifically an elder) who serves in a supervisory position...

office of Elder, then, is what most people tend to think of as the pastoral, priestly, clergy office within the church. Indeed, even a Methodist Bishop is...

saved, especially through the camp meeting revival. In the Methodist church, the presiding elder oversaw the works of preachers and churches to which he...

Free Methodist Church (FMC) ordained its first woman deacon in 1911. The Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection ordained its first female elder in 1853...

ministered to by white ordained Methodist ministers. In 1820, six of these churches met to ordain James Varick as an elder, and in 1821 he was made the first...