'Praeses' and 'primus' as titles in churches.
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SA1952.27.B1a (B10a)
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Summary
'Praeses' and 'primus' as titles in churches.
John Strachan's church at Craigdam still has a praeses and still pays the minister direct. The praeses is like a chairman or president of a meeting. Hamish Henderson is a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the head of which is called 'primus'. He mentioned this to an Englishman, who had only heard the word as meaning a kind of stove.
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The praeses was the chairman of the management board in the United Presbyterian Church. Congregations that merged into the Church of Scotland in 1929 retained the term.
See:
'The Scottish National Dictionary' (available online [[http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/]], accessed 16 June 2009) s.v. preses
'The Concise Scots Dictionary', Appendix 'Churches in Scotland', p. 820
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Scots
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