Eldership may refer to: *

Elder (administrative title) The term Elder, or its equivalent in another language, is used in several countries and organizations to indicate a position of authority. This usage is usually derived from the notion that the oldest members of any given group are the wisest, and ...

, used in several countries and organizations to indicate a position of authority *

Eldership (Christianity) In Christianity, an elder is a person who is valued for wisdom and holds a position of responsibility and authority in a Christian group. In some Christian traditions (e.g., Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Methodism) an ''elder' ...

, the governance of a local congregation by elders *

Elderships of Lithuania A ''seniūnija'' (in English: eldership, elderate, ward, parish, or subdistrict) is the smallest administrative division of Lithuania. An eldership may comprise a very small region consisting of few villages, one single town, or a part of ...

, the smallest Lithuanian administrative divisions *

Starostwo Starostwo (literally "eldership") ; be, староства, translit=starostva; german: Starostei is an administrative unit established from the 14th century in the Polish Crown and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the part ...

(Polish for "eldership"), a medieval Polish office granted by the king * Starosta okruh (Ukrainian for "eldership"), a part of the territory of the territorial hromadas of Ukraine

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