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Theophilus (Presbyter)

 pseudonym of Roger of Helmarshausen

(flourished 12th century) German monk and writer. He is known for his De Diversis Artibus (c. 1110–40), a thorough account of the techniques of almost all the known crafts of the early 12th century. From his writings it can be deduced that he was a practicing craftsman of the Benedictine order.

presbyter
1. 
a. an elder of a congregation in the early Christian Church
b. (in some Churches having episcopal politics) an official who is subordinate to a bishop and has administrative, teaching, and sacerdotal functions
2. (in some hierarchical Churches) another name for priest
3. in the Presbyterian Church
a. a teaching elder
b. a ruling elder


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priests need help adjusting to a different kind of presbyterate.
Foreign affairs by Hoover, Brett; MacKenzie, Michael / U.S. Catholic
His views on the theology of the presbyterate are likewise hard to reconcile with the teaching of Presbyterorum ordinis (2).
Women & the priesthood by Commonweal
24) While recognizing the ambiguity in the history of the emergence of the episcopate as a separate and higher office than that of the presbyterate (the bishop was preeminent over the presbyters), that Trent had not wished to go against Jerome, who had maintained that difference between the two was not by divine ordination, and that "in the history of the church there are instances of priests (i.
A Lutheran reflection on Eucharist and Ministry by Persaud, Winston D. / Currents in Theology and Mission
 
 
 
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