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  • n  in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
  • n  a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held

  • And its mood is widely felt to be about as bracing as an unaired vestry.
  • His devotion was rewarded when he was elected to the vestry.
  • The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes.
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  • Ed Jordan
    Jesup—Ed Jordan, 75, of Jesup died April 12, 2013, in Wayne Memorial Hospital under the care of Hospice of South Georgia. The Wayne County native was a 1956 Jesup High School graduate and a member and former Vestry member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
    June 9, 2013 - Jesup Press-Sentinel
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  • AR Gurney in Hartford Courant
    He was the Billy Graham of his day,says Gurney, "but he got caught up in a scandal involving the wife of the head of the vestry, the man who had trusted him the most. It's Christian love turned on its tail. I've returned to it many times,...

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