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Session (Presbyterianism)
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"Session Clerk" redirects here. For the Clerk of Session, see Court of Session.
A session (from the Latin word sessio, which means "to sit", as in sitting to deliberate or talk about something; sometimes called consistory or church board) is a body of elected elders governing a particular church within presbyterian polity.
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