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 Subdivisions of Lithuania, administrative division of Lithuania. An eldership may comprise a very small region consisting of few villages, one ...

, the smallest Lithuanian administrative divisions *

Starostwo ''Starostwo'' (literally " eldership") is an administrative unit established from the 14th century in the Polish Crown and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partition of Poland in 1795. Starostwos were established in the ...

(Polish for "eldership"), a medieval Polish office granted by the king *

Starosta okruh Starosta okruh () is an administrative unit in Ukraine, an optional subdivision of the hromadas. Description A starosta okruh is a political subdivision of a hromada whose purpose is to represent the local interests of a settlement or settlem ...

(Ukrainian for "eldership"), a part of the territory of the territorial hromadas of Ukraine

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