Ecclesiastical Ordinances
The Ecclesiastical Ordinances were the foundational laws introduced by John Calvin in Geneva in 1541 to organize the structure and discipline of the Reformed church.[1] This had been requested by the Genevan authorities after he had been called back from exile, and were strongly influenced by his stay in Martin Bucer's Strasbourg.[2] They defined four church ministries — pastors, doctors, elders, and deacons — and established the Company of Pastors and the Consistory to regulate doctrine, morality, and church governance in cooperation with the civil authorities in the city council. [3]
Calvin insisted on the Ordinances being accepted as a condition of his return to Geneva.[4] They were revised in 1561.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Kingdon 2003.
- ^ MacCulloch 2009, pp. 632–633.
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- ^ Schaff 1910.
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