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The Historical Development of the PCA Book of Church Order

Chapter 20 : The Election of Pastors

Paragraph 12 :

20-12. A candidate or licentiate found fit and called (in accordance with BCO 20-1) for missionary service by a missionary agency or Presbytery shall be examined by Presbytery for ordination. If approved the Presbytery shall proceed to his ordination.

[Historical Summary : The current text of BCO 20-12 dates to 1986 [M14GA, 14-19, Item 8, p. 92].

Background and Comparison :
PCA 1973, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly
[no comparable text]

Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text
 [no comparable text]

PCUS 1933
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PCUS 1879
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PCUS 1869 draft
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PCUS 1867 draft
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COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898)
[no comparable text for discussion]



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[FoG = Form of Government ; RoD = Rules of Discipline ; DfW = Directory for Worship]