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Ecclesiastical Ordinances
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Doctors (Teachers)
The Doctors were responsible for theological instruction and the preservation of doctrinal purity. They held ultimate interpretive authority over established commentaries and were charged with training future ministers at the Academy of Geneva. A unique responsibility assigned to the Doctors was the monthly calibration of the city’s official weights and measures against the standard established by the original set of bronze implements housed in the Consistory ch…