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PRESBYTERIUM Definition & Legal Meaning

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That part of the church where divine offices are performed; formerly applied to tile choir or chancel, because it was the place appropriated to the bishop, priest, and other clergy, while the laity were confined to the body ol’ the church. Jacob.

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