Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

native land was not unlike that of England, of
which he was a great admirer. Poland was on a
great scale what the foreign Church over which
John Alasco presided in London was on a small.
First came the Superintendent, for Alasco preferred
that term, though the more learned one of Senior
Primarius was sometimes used to designate this
dignitary. The Superintendent, or Senior Primarius,
corresponded somewhat in rank and powers to an
archbishop. He convoked Synods, presided in
them, and executed their sentences; but he had no
judicial authority, and was subject to the Synod,
which could judge, admonish, and depose him.[1]
Over the Churches of a district a Sub-
Superintendent, or Senior, presided. The Senior
corresponded to a bishop. He took the place of the
Superintendent in his absence; he convoked the
Synods of the district, and possessed a certain
limited jurisdiction, though exclusively spiritual.
The other ecclesiastical functionaries were the
Minister, the Deacon, and the Lecturer. The Polish
Protestants eschewed the fashion and order of the
Roman hierarchy, and strove to reproduce as far as
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