ecclesiastical

An exemption from a church law, a vow, or another similar obligation granted in a particular case by an ecclesiastical authority.

All of these priests were over 60 years of age and represented primarily the higher ranks in the traditional ecclesiastical hierarchy.

The Churches of Chiloe represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture.

Various ecclesiastical investigations have been conducted upon the miracle, and the evidence of the miracle remains in Lanciano to this day.

My inn had once been a part of an ancient ecclesiastical house.

Kremlin artisans would sew the most valuable of these fabrics into ecclesiastical garments for leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church.

By this time the king's courts were the arenas for most cases of importance (except those involving ecclesiastical disputes).

His major work, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (731), is still the principal source for English history up to that time.

study of ecclesiastical architecture and ornamentation.

Worship is not going to some ecclesiastical building week by week, perhaps once or twice, to attend what is called Divine worship.

A belt or sash , especially one worn with an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a monk or nun .

Ecclesiastical principles, practices, and activities.

A liturgical form practiced in a particular church, ecclesiastical district, or community.

His actual official ecclesiastical authority as bishop was only in Antioch and its environs.

the doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.

The color black, the preference of ecclesiastical leaders, was a symbol of authority.

his ecclesiastical jurisdiction is called the Holy See ( Sancta Sedes).

In addition, a number of other ecclesiastical institutions provide for the steady growth and constant renewal of the bond.

They offer a counter-point to accepted ecclesiastical literature, and have been controversial ever since their discovery.

He is elected by the College of Cardinals, who as a group rank next to the Pope in ecclesiastical authority.

Papal diplomats, all priests nowadays, are trained at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome.

A19th - century Roman Catholic movement that favored political democracy and ecclesiastical reform but was theologically orthodox.

The ecclesiastical "vernal equinox" is always on March 21.

Stylish: Has brought back traditional red, custom-made "pope shoes" and old-school Ecclesiastical headgear.

The implication is that the Lord's Day as the day of Christian worship is of ecclesiastical authority only.

Now this was not an official ecclesiastical authority.

Round the table stood seven big ecclesiastical-looking candlesticks .

The kingdom of the left hand describes the exercise of power in the ecclesiastical and civil realms.

Dressed or clothed, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.

From about 1650 on, construction work resumes, and secular and ecclesiastical architecture are of equal importance.

It is not enough that ecclesiastical men abstain from violence and rapine and all manner of persecution.

A plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.

When the ecclesiastical ministry changed the law to allow such recycling in 2005, it barred the reuse of such spare parts in works of art.

(Market Order and State Planning and Ecclesiastical Economics).

An ornamental drapingof cloth hung from the shoulders of an academic or ecclesiastical robe.

To free from ecclesiastical control; give over to laypeople.

A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.

transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control.

The confessor, the martyr type figure, or the ecclesiastical official figure of the bishop?

Ecclesiastical power as distinguished from the secular.

A formal order from a bishop or an ecclesiastical court to refrain from a specified offense.

The rabbi wore ecclesiastical robes; a choir sang from a loft appointed in organ pipes.

You will be diligent in increasing the income arising from the sick, from masses, and in general from every ecclesiastical ordinance.

There are 18 officially recognised religious groups. Their ecclesiastical and demographic patterns are extremely complex.

Of or relating to an ecclesiastical metropolitan.

To Grant an ecclesiastical indulgence or dispensation to.

But the church's business was not strictly ecclesiastical.

Ecclesiastical law is administered in these courts.

A sphere of ecclesiastical authority.

Until the Ecclesiastical Court can hear your appeal, which I am sure you will forthwith file.

In his eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all;

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And revised the doctrine of religious rules: against the Roman Church on national ecclesiastical control;

Dictionary of Religion and Religions - Including Theological and Ecclesiastical Terms

The Necessity of and Biblical Basis for Ecclesiastical Assemblies

Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

The Ecclesiastical Background of the Development of Middle- English Law

i have an ecclesiastical demeanor apparently

Ecclesiastical History of the English People , 731-732