A kyoshi is an ordained Konkokyo minister, serving at one of the religion's roughly 1,550 churches and performing toritsugi, the practice of receiving a visitor's trouble in person and conveying it in prayer to Tenchi Kane no Kami on their behalf, the same mediating role the founder himself first took up. As of a December 2012 count the religion had about 3,909 kyoshi in active service. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Organisation
Reach of Its AuthorityOne congregation, house or temple 1 Sourced to the subject's own accountA kyoshi's standing is local to the one church they serve among Konkokyo's roughly fifteen hundred churches, unlike the Shinbashira, whose administrative authority runs across the whole tradition from Tenri. The two offices sit at different scales of the same organisation rather than at different points on a single ladder a kyoshi might climb toward. Connections
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Source Konkokyo (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
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1. Konkokyo (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationOn the Konkokyo minister's role receiving Toritsugi requests from visitorsQuote, On the Konkokyo minister's role receiving Toritsugi requests from visitors
One can receive Toritsugi by a Konkōkyō minister, generally at a Konkōkyō church.
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