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A district superintendent, often abbreviated D.S., also known as a presiding elder, in many Methodist denominations, is a minister (specifically an elder) who serves in a supervisory position over a geographic "district" of churches (varying in size) providing spiritual and administrative leadership to those churches and their pastors.
District Superintendent may be:
- District Superintendent (United Methodist Church)
- A rank in the London Metropolitan Police in use from 1869 to 1886, when it was renamed Chief Constable
- The full title of the rank of Superintendent (police) in many former British territories
Usage examples of "district superintendent".
An unofficial one, a special understanding with the district superintendent.
It was an ordinary summons from the district police-station to appear that day at half-past nine at the office of the district superintendent.
The District Superintendent must be how Haitao got to study engineering.
Navigatus had been complaining then that he missed the sight and smells of the garden he had had when he was a District Superintendent in Trier.
This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police - belt, helmet, polished spurs and all - strutting and twirling his dark moustache.
A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.
A newly ordained bachelor missionary with whom she'd been left alone a good deal when the Reverend Feller had been promoted to Assistant District Superintendent.