We are told that when Paul and Barnabas were on their way back home from their first missionary trip, “they appointed elders for them in each congregation, offering prayer with fasting, and they entrusted them to Jehovah, in whom they had become believers. ”
صحيح ان الاسفار المقدسة لا تشرح بالتفصيل كيف كان الشيوخ يعيَّنون آنذاك ،‏ الا انها تعطينا فكرة عن الموضوع .‏