The Presbytery

The body of ordained priests/elders. Paul exhorts Timothy not to neglect the grace given by the laying on of hands of the presbytery.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Paul exhorts Timothy not to neglect the grace given by the laying on of hands of the presbytery

  "the grace which was given him by the laying on of hands of the presbytery"