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CANON LXXXI: We have said that a Bishop, or a Presbyter must not descend himself into public offices, but must attend to ecclesiastical needs.
[116] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
The silver made in Mexico during the viceregal period is legendary, yet most of the surviving examples are ecclesiastical rather than domestic.
But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

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With great joy I received the announcement of Your Beatitude's election to the Patriarchal See of Alexandria for Copts and your request for Ecclesiastical Communion.
Property was often declared to be "corban" for other purposes than dedication to ecclesiastical use. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
They differ in their formal cause, as doth clearly appear by their way or manner of acting: magistratical power takes cognizance of crimes, and passes sentence thereupon according to statutes and laws made by man: ecclesiastical power takes cognizance of, and passes judgment upon crimes according to the word of God, the Holy Scriptures. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
Ecclesiastical discipline, penes Episcopos, subordinate as the other. Anatomy of Melancholy
Many canonists hold that the subdiaconate, being of merely ecclesiastical institution, was formerly amounted one of the minor orders of the Church, and infer that before the time of Urban II (1099), Abbots could have given that order. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
The very next year the Council formally introduced the evil which they called ecclesiastical reformation. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
It would be very easy to write a very stupid religion-and-Torchwood story; but Minchin confidently takes Gwen and Rhys through matters ecclesiastical, in what for me is the slightly foreign church environment of South Wales. July Books 1) Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
A sojourning congregation is no longer ecclesiastical. Transparency, Creativity, and Heresy
It was exclusively a _commercial_ city, there was nothing ecclesiastical (Babylon _ecclesiastical_, the religious system had been destroyed, when all _religious_ head-ship had been summed up in Apleon). The Mark of the Beast
In short, I felt I could justify my ambition to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. ULTIMATE PRIZES
This, as may be imagined, made her husband no less desirous of a separation than herself, and he prosecuted his design in the most effectual manner: for he applied, not to the ecclesiastical courts for a divorce, but to the Parliament for an Act by which his marriage might be dissolved, the nuptial contract annulled, and the children of his wife illegitimated. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
Interest on money is forbidden; the prohibition of usury is, indeed, as Roscher says, the centre of the whole canonistic system of economy, as well as the foundation of a great part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
The preface to the reader made it abundantly clear that it was aimed not at erudite ecclesiastical theologians but at ordinary people.
Seen this way, the First Amendment is a two-edged sword that prevents government from inhibiting religious expression, but also limits the scope of religious authority to ecclesiastical affairs.
All the world — meaning the ecclesiastical world as confined to the English church — knew that the wardenship of the Barchester Hospital was a snug sinecure, but no one had ever been blamed for accepting it. The Warden
Still, there must be no haggling; in ecclesiastical language 'ten' means ten beads; no doubt ... but I remember very well that after he pronounced the word rosary, the father expressed himself thus: 'you will say ten,' that means ten rosaries, for otherwise he would have specified ten ... of a rosary. En Route
My ambition was to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
In other words, it is a biblical and doctrinal criterion, not an ecclesiastical or historical one.
Gold and silver was also beaten and drawn out to be used to make thread for embroidery and braid weaving, often of an ecclesiastical in nature.
In ecclesiastical affairs, the see of Canterbury claimed a comparable hegemony.
These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect.
The fate of glagolitic became involved with the ecclesiastical politics of Dalmatia, where Byzantine and Latin religious influences overlapped.
The name modernist then will be appropriate only when there is question of opposition to the certain teaching of ecclesiastical authority through a spirit of innovation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
He was about to defend the holy of holies from the touch of the profane; to guard the citadel of his Church from the most rampant of its enemies; to put on his good armour in the best of fights; and secure, if possible, the comforts of his creed for coming generations of ecclesiastical dignitaries. 01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
Sandwiched between a brief but useful introduction and conclusion, the bulk of its pages are in effect a gazetteer of churches and other ecclesiastical buildings in the six Border Marches (from east to west, Scottish and English in turn).
Noonan is VERY important thinker, and a comment box is no place to air what whole conferences have debated over the years, ie, his ultimate place in ecclesiastical and juridic letters. Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil. A History of American Christianity
He understood the Doctor and commended his stand on the ecclesiastical issues of the day to members of the congregation and to the deacons.
Both by the solitary nature of her visionary experience and by the ecclesiastical condemnation, Joan was an outsider.
When, as occurs at times, a priest of the prelature's clergy is called by the Holy Father to the episcopate, the same thing happens as with any diocesan priest: He ceases to be incardinated in the ecclesiastical circumscription from which he comes, although he continues to receive spiritual assistance from the prelature. Archive 2008-03-30
A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy. Doctor Thorne
Outwardly quiet and unostentatious, he was a deeply thoughtful man who shared his father's fascination with the complex iconography of ecclesiastical architecture and trappings.
By the eleventh century a number of towns existed along the valley and important civic and ecclesiastical buildings were erected.
Vaterland", has about 11,000 subscribers among Catholics, while among the 63,000 subscribers to the politically and ecclesiastically indifferent "Zürcher Tagesanzeiger", there are about 20,000 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
That literature is almost exclusively religious, or rather (with the exception of the Gnostic writings and a few magical texts) ecclesiastical, either as to its contents (Bible, lectionaries, martyrologies, etc.) or as to its purpose (grammars and vocabularies composed with reference to the ecclesiastical books). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Thus papal absolutism and Spanish absolutism, secular and ecclesiastical power, grew ever more complementary and interdependent.
Bäumker) as strophically arranged sacred songs in the vulgar tongue, which, because of their ecclesiastical character, are suitable to be sung by the whole congregation, and have been either expressly approved for this purpose by ecclesiastical authority, or at least tacitly admitted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
a fresh impulse was given to legal researches, the terms legist and decretist -- the latter applied, in the narrower sense, to the interpreter of ecclesiastical law and commentator on the canonical texts -- have been carefully distinguished. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The works of Martène (1654-1739) on ecclesiastical and monastic rites (1690 and 1700-2) and his collections of anecdota (1700, 1717, and 1724-33) are most voluminous; he was assisted by Durand. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Thus the Gothic cannot be defended as a universally valid period concept even in architec - ture, but is only applicable to ecclesiastical buildings, their decoration, and sphere of influence. CONCEPT OF GOTHIC
No family as a family is either a church or any part of a church, (in the notion that church is here spoken of;) and though masters of families be governors in their own houses, yet their power is not ecclesiastical but economical or domestical, common to heathens as well as Christians. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
These conclusions were already familiar enough to the ecclesiastical establishment, many of whom readily accepted them.
These four decided against the Master, but he appealed to the ecclesiastical authority of the Bishop of Chester.
Sensitive to the alleged and often real rebuffs of friends, but also to the demands of ecclesiastical authority, he was often at its mercy.
Ten years after his consecration he was delated for heresy by an ecclesiastical court, and subsequently excommunicated from the Anglican Church altogether.
A novel that provides readers with "honorary doctoral degrees in ecclesiastical history," describes Jesus as a sexual hedonist, and claims the Catholic Church is built on lies. Is TDVC "just a novel"? No way, says the Chicago Tribune
Even some who have been the subject of ecclesiastical sanction at his hand attest to his personal warmth.
And once he put his ecclesiastical heel in a pail of varnish, and slid down an entire staircase, to the great imperilment of his kindly old soul. Dangerous Days
It is not customary to use the term emancipation for that form of dismissal by which a church is released from parochial jurisdiction, a bishop from subordination to his metropolitan, a monastery or order from the jurisdiction of the bishop, for the purpose of placing such person or body under the ecclesiastical authority next higher in rank, or under the pope himself. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
And since the clergy alone could rightly confer these, it was natural that they should claim the right to bestow ecclesiastical offices, including the lands ( "temporalities") attached to them, upon whomsoever they pleased without consulting any layman whatever. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
a resemblance between this pseudograph and certain references of ecclesiastical writers to Acta or Gesta of Pilate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts, which did not give a licence to remarry.
Following debut album Appetite for Destruction, Axl starts referencing the likes of Elton John with the ecclesiastical piano dirge of ‘November Rain’ from follow-up Use Your Illusion.
Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Man and Superman
Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanah David of Zion and the possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution. Ulysses
What aspects of our ecclesiastical tradition facilitate and what create a barrier to our communication attempts?
The clergy also intervened in disputes through the provision of ecclesiastical sanctuary.
The color black, the preference of ecclesiastical leaders, was a symbol of authority.
I shouted, just as I always did when I finally regained my sate harbour after an exhausting day sailing on the ecclesiastical high seas. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
And, while Jerry slew it, knowing that the lust of killing, once started, would lead him to continue killing the silly birds, Agno left the laying-yard to hot-foot it through the mangrove swamp and present to Bashti an ecclesiastical quandary. CHAPTER XVI
Thus, from the combined effects of the ecclesiastical lancet lights and the apsidal shape of the room, it occurred to Christopher that the sisters were all a delightful set of pretty saints, exhibiting themselves in a lady chapel, and backed up by unkempt major prophets, as represented by the forms of their big brothers. The Hand of Ethelberta
It still fulfilled prescribed ecclesiastical functions, but its euphony and its expressive power showed the way toward artistic autonomy.
Only, he had one singular advantage for the promotion of his pretence and desire; for whereas this whole contignation of churches into all these storeys, in the top whereof he emerged and lifted up himself, was nothing but an accommodation of the church and its affairs unto the government of the Roman empire, or the setting up of an ecclesiastical image and representation of its secular power and rule, the centring therein of all subordinate powers and orders in one monarch inclined the minds of men to comply with his design as very reasonable. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history?
This argument assumes that some crimes and punishments in that system are comparable to the canonical crime of clerical sexual wrongdoing with a minor and the ecclesiastical penalties available for it.
In the first place, I refer to the reform of ecclesiastical studies of philosophy, a project which has now reached the last stages of its elaboration, in which the metaphysical and sapiential dimensions of philosophy, mentioned by John Paul II in his Encyclical Fides et Ratio cf. n. 81, will certainly be emphasized. Archive 2008-02-01
The arrangement of ecclesiastical chanting into tones was entirely the work of the famous hymnographer St. John of Damascus.
Obliged to adopt the remuneration norms from the West, the Churches abandoned in part their tradition of equality, and a new schism entered into ecclesiastical society between the rich and the less well off.
Besides allusions in the inscriptions to the various ecclesiastical ranks of bishop, priest, deacon, lector, and excavator (fossor), there are references to physicians, bakers, smiths, and joiners, often with emblems of the respective instruments. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
In short, I felt I could justify my ambition to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. ULTIMATE PRIZES
The main proposal of the ‘Edict of Restitution’ was to ensure that the ‘Ecclesiastical Reservation’ was enforced and it affected the secularised archbishoprics of Bremen and Magdeburg, 12 bishoprics and over 100 religious houses.
Historians working on the ecclesiastical history of France in the early modern period are fortunate in that a rich collection of pamphlets and demonological tracts has survived and has been made widely accessible in a microfiche series. Carleton Cunningham: The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France
Many had visions, but most always interpreted them not for themselves, but to upbuild Christian community and bring hope in times of plague, famine, and ecclesiastical turmoil and to offer wisdom for the changes and chances of this life.
In the 15th century, Joan of Arc's ecclesiastical inquisitors asked her, "Do you know yourself to be in God's grace?"
Yet this does not mean that Bell saw no place in the church for the episcopal office, and instead sought to map the historical pedigree of an hierarchical system of ecclesiastical governance.
Cathedral deans, like vicars, enjoy freehold and therefore cannot be removed from office unless convicted of a serious offence in the secular or ecclesiastical courts.
Pallotti offers this bit of ecclesiastical hokum as it if it made perfect, pious sense: the point of the program isn't celibacy "as much as creating what they call a chaste kind of life. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Stuart was also the painter of choice for ecclesiastical portraiture and painted countless bishops and deans of the Anglican church.
Chieftains, on their conversion, made donations of land to the Church, and at first the ecclesiastical offices seem to have remained in the hands of the sept, with the coarb (inheritor) as bishop or abbot. 3. Ireland
After this came the gift of the ring, a part of the ceremony which in ecclesiastical phraseology long retained the name of the subarrhation.
Apologists of orthodoxy wrote at length about the ease of heresy: the uninsulated wires of heaven can burn without the ecclesiastical electricians.
Popes also began wearing a white woolen cloak, call a pallium, to symbolize their ecclesiastical rank. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
I'll always think of you as an ecclesiastical buccaneer with an overdeveloped taste for magic," said Aysgarth fondly. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
In ecclesiastical buildings, the triforium, a windowless gallery above the main arcade, was of great importance, largely for structural reasons, in contrast to the enlarged clerestory of Gothic architecture.
Hospitals and poor houses found the charitable bequests on which they had always relied dwindling, and, as ecclesiastical institutions, they were cut off from further endowments by legislation of 1749 restricting mortmain.
The tippet was an academic adaptation of the ecclesiastical almuce, and was not the same as the hood, although the almuce seems to have been in the first place nothing but an ordinary hood with a lining of fur to keep out the cold. The Customs of Old England
Extant works include ecclesiastical poems, rhythmical verse, and a number of letters.
But, neither their successful reinstatement of the Patriarchal office nor the restoration of the ecclesiastical character of the Synod proved lasting.
The grand pensionary was always supposed to be profoundly versed in civil, ecclesiastical, and consuetudinary law; and in foreign diplomacy. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
The manageableness of ecclesiastical regulation will be improved.
My ambition was to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
It was ordered that "no tenant-in-chief of the king, no officer of his household, or of his demesne, should be excommunicated, or his lands put under an interdict, until application had been made to the king, or in his absence to the grand justiciary, who ought to take care that what belongs to the king's courts shall be there determined, and what belongs to the ecclesiastical courts shall be determined in them. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
And thus it comes about that the ecclesiastical model of marriage entwines the lay one without a hitch, and in its embrace foreshadows a revolutionary way of looking at marriage.
Men who have been reared in a system of ecclesiastical endowments are apt to cherish the very unapostolic belief that money is a sacred thing; but even they are coming, though by slow degrees, to realize that the Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences
The term installation is also applied to the institutio corporalis, or putting in possession of any ecclesiastical benefice whatsoever (see INSTITUTION, CANONICAL); or, again, to the solemn entry of a parish priest into his new parish, even when this solemn act takes place after the parish priest has really been put in possession of his benefice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Ecclesiastical historians will tell you that hair-splitting issues are the ones that cause havoc among the zealots.
Ecclesiastical term as of a bishop without a see in Christendom Latin Quotations | Impact Lab
All are invited to join in prayer at the Basilica including religious movements, confraternities, associations, colleges and all groups ecclesiastical or lay. 40 Hours at Santa Maria Maggiore
In ecclesiastical jurisprudence, the word precept is used: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
(king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625)), sought "congruity" between the different churches in Scotland, England, and Ireland rather than British ecclesiastical union or the Anglicanization of all the churches. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Liberty of thought and action, and incoercible desire to be free from governmental, traditional, ultra-ecclesiastical, or Shint [= o] influence -- in a word, protestantism in its pure sense, is characteristic of the great sect founded by The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
There are three dimensions of ecclesiastical medievalism that are still part and parcel of the church today.
Cathari, Poor Men of Lyons, Lombards, Albigenses, Waldenses, Vaudois, etc. The name Waldenses and Albigenses have frequently been loosely applied to all the bands of people that passed under various titles in different countries and that opposed the doctrines and ecclesiastical tyranny of Rome. The Revelation Explained
In addition to painting and sculpture, the collections include displays of silver, ecclesiastical ornaments and vestments, furniture, and altars.
That fills the Soul with unavailing ruth. admin Uncategorized ecclesiastical sonnets iv druidical excommunication, ira lightman, william wordsworth Ira Lightman reads “Ecclesiastical Sonnets, IV. Druidical Excommunication” by William Wordsworth
The ideal empire of Ottonian Germany was in many ways an ecclesiastical state, and its government worried itself with ecclesiastical affairs. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
It is striking to observe that so little were these ecclesiastical notes (embedded in the text) understood by the possessor of the MS., that in the margin, over against ch.xv. 41, (where “ΤΕΛ:” stands _in the text_,) a somewhat later hand has written, — ΤΕ [λος] Τ [ης] ΩΡ [ας]. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
Many have assumed this, or these, collections to be identical with, or at any rate based upon, the "logia," of which ecclesiastical tradition says, that they were written in Aramaic by Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
Many of the pieces now needing repair date from the great revival in ecclesiastical vestments and frontals in the decades that followed the passing of the Church Reform Act in 1829.
A medieval town dominated by fantastic architecture, it is a gem with ancient streets and alleyways punctuated by beautiful civil and ecclesiastical buildings.
In this way, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, although not expressly so stated in the decretals, the term censure became the equivalent of a certain class of ecclesiastical penalties, i.e., interdict, suspension, and excommunication. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Nevertheless they do illustrate the complexities of local ecclesiastical politics.
What aspects of our ecclesiastical tradition facilitate and what create a barrier to our communication attempts?
The regime raised the stipends of clergy and restored a number of ecclesiastical properties to the orders.
The ecclesiastical structures of the churches in the four nations of Great Britain were in important respects distinct.
Until the early 19th century, all divorces were transacted in the ecclesiastical courts, where witness statements were taken down verbatim, in private. Betrayals Of Love
The Bull also conferred the right to present candidates for all the abbacies and prelacies of the regulars and, indeed for every ecclesiastical benefice, large or small. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
How typical that He should choose to bypass our grand and wonderful ecclesiastical institutions to communicate his message to the world through the godless celluloid of Hollywood.
Heckling is now considered rather bad form in ecclesiastical society. Times, Sunday Times
The Pope excommunicated king and cabinet, and these repeated ecclesiastical censures muzzled any patriotic stirrings among the clergy.
The regime raised the stipends of clergy and restored a number of ecclesiastical properties to the orders.
If interest in the heresies he combated may be said to be confined to-day to scholars who study them as a chapter in heresiology, or seek in them a bone of contention, the interest in the points of ecclesiastical order delineated by him was never more intense than now. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
'imposts' and 'subsidies' were so excessive that, in many villages, no assessments of 'tailles' were laid; the 'tithes' (on ecclesiastical property) were so high that the curates and vicars fled away, through fear of being imprisoned, and divine service ceased to be said in a large number of parishes adjoining this city of Caen: as in the villages of Plumetot, Periers, Sequeville, Puto, Soliers, and many others. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Prescinding for the present from the exact nature of a concordat, and without giving an exact definition, we may say that a concordat is a law, ecclesiastical and civil, made for a certain country in regard to matters which in some way concern both Church and State, a law, moreover, possessing the force of a treaty entered into by both the ecclesiastical and civil power and to a certain extent binding upon both. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Pallavicino's History of the Council of Trent was the principal work on this important ecclesiastical assembly. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
The magistratical power punishes not all sorts of scandal, but some: the ecclesiastical power punishes (if rightly managed) all sorts of scandal. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The general purport of the Constitutions, when they were at last made known, was to transfer certain causes -- for example, those regarding presentations to benefices -- from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical to that of the King's Courts, to restrain appeals to Rome, to prevent the excommunication of the king's officers and great vassals, and to sanction the king's appropriation of the revenues of bishoprics and abbacies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
After all, are not all religions but the theological symbolization of natural phenomena; and the sacraments, the festivals, and fasts of all the churches have their counterparts in the mysterious processes and manifestations of Nature? and is the contemplation of the resurrection of Adonis or Thammuz more edifying to the soul than to meditate the strange return of the spring which their legends but ecclesiastically celebrate? Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
It must characterize the attitude of every loyal believer towards nonacceptance of political posts, nonidentification with political parties, nonparticipation in political controversies, and nonmembership in political organizations and ecclesiastical institutions. The Advent of Divine Justice
The religious, municipal, signorial, and ecclesiastical functions of the little town are centralised around the open market-place, on which the common people transacted business and discussed affairs. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
This is, admittedly, not Ackroyd's field; he much prefers to fossick around with ecclesiastical architecture and cross-dressing at early-medieval festivals. That Blessed Plot, That Enigmatic Isle
The word alba, indeed, meets us not infrequently in connection with ecclesiastical vesture in the first seven centuries, but we cannot safely argue from the identity of the name to the identity of the thing. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
And why wait for the ecclesiastical niceties to be ironed out before such a task is undertaken?
The preface to the reader made it abundantly clear that it was aimed not at erudite ecclesiastical theologians but at ordinary people.
By the same act any person for corrupt consideration presenting, instituting or inducting to an ecclesiastical benefice or dignity forfeits two years 'value of the benefice or dignity; the corrupt presentation is void, and the right to present lapses for that turn to the crown, and the corrupt presentee is disabled from thereafter holding the same benefice or dignity; a corrupt institution or induction is void, and the patron may present. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Ancient ecclesiastical monuments and documents lead us to believe that a subdeacon was a sort of head-acolyte or arch-acolyte, holding the same relation to the acolytes as the archdeacon to deacons, with this difference, however, that there was only one archdeacon, while there was a deacon for each region. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Popularly the term benefice is often understood to denote either certain property destined for the support of ministers of religion, or a spiritual office or function, such as the care of souls, but in the strict sense it signifies a right, i.e. the right given permanently by the Church to a cleric to receive ecclesiastical revenues on account of the performance of some spiritual service. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Popes also began wearing a white woolen cloak called a pallium, to symbolize their ecclesiastical rank. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
No person shall be capable of acting in any office Civil, Military [or Ecclesiastical] * The Qualifications of all not otherwise directed, shall be an oath of fidelity to state and the having given no bribe to obtain their office* who shall have given any bribe to obtain such office, or who shall not previously take an oath of fidelity to the state. Public Papers
Much of the gold and silver was used in the production of ecclesiastical items such as altar-crosses, reliquaries, and portative altars; the church being the client who could afford such wonderful pieces of work.
But the reasons brought to bear against suicide by the priests of monotheistic, that is of Jewish religions, and by those philosophers who adapt themselves to it, are weak sophisms easily contradicted. 20 Hume has furnished the most thorough refutation of them in his Essay on Suicide, which did not appear until after his death, and was immediately suppressed by the shameful bigotry and gross ecclesiastical tyranny existing in Essays of Schopenhauer
This, as may be imagined, made her husband no less desirous of a separation than herself, and he prosecuted his design in the most effectual manner; for he applied not to the ecclesiastical courts for a divorce, but to the parliament for an act, by which his marriage might be dissolved, the nuptial contract totally annulled, and the children of his wife illegitimated. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
Art on Russian soil was essentially an importation of ecclesiastical models, chiefly icons, derived from Byzantine art.
Ecclesiastical vestments were often trimmed with heavy gold fringe, knotted "fretty wise," and the embroideries were further enriched with jewels and small plaques of enamel. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
The marriage was valid under canonical and ecclesiastical laws.
Ecclesiastical principalities - A principality technically under the rulership of a prince, but nonetheless strongly dominated the Church.
Another wildfire movement was liberation theology, expressed in Base Ecclesiastical Communities.
I think Presbyterians have erred in plainness in ecclesiastical life. Two Tokens of National Progress
The term Apostle is the pinnacle of ecclesiastical recognition and there is a growing army of apostles in Africa!
I have, therefore, thought of the following expedient, which will almost answer the same purpose -- viz. that all power, both _legislative and executive, ecclesiastical and civil_, may be divided among _both sexes_; and that they may be equally capable of sitting in Parliament. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
And, since the taboo was essentially religious, to Agno was deputed the ecclesiastical task of guarding and cherishing and caring for the royal laying-yard. CHAPTER XVI
Wherever Roman doctrine _de fide_ is oppugned they must protest; but short of this they render absolute obedience to their ecclesiastical superiors in the church of England. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
Gilboa, and a Parisian convulsionary, who scribbles ecclesiastical notices in his garret, in 1758, is wonderfully striking. A Philosophical Dictionary
Brassy is not a polite adjective and in ecclesiastical circles in the twentieth century Brummagem brass came to be seen as the worst expression of commercial bad taste. Anthony Symondson on "Hardman of Birmingham"
Several early ecclesiastical centers and monasteries are also shown.
Our eyes are drawn to the magnificent ecclesiastical buildings that are especially prominent in York.
The magistratical power in some cases of treason, &c., banishes or otherwise punishes even penitent persons: ecclesiastical power punishes no penitent persons. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Visits to churches and castles with his father alerted him to aspects of ecclesiastical and secular iconography, in particular medieval paving tiles, monumental brasses, and heraldry.
It is true that Jerome endeavoured to enhance the dignity of the priesthood at the expense of the episcopate and to refer the bishop's superiority "rather to ecclesiastical custom than to Divine regulation" (In Tit., i, 5: "Episcopi noverint se magis consuetudine quam dispositionis dominicæ veritate presbyteris esse majores"). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
In the nineteenth century architects had largely been concerned with special buildings produced for civic, commercial, ecclesiastical and landowner clients.
The seven new shared schools are to be built in the ecclesiastical province of Glasgow, which comprises the three dioceses of Glasgow, Motherwell and Paisley.
In respect of the matter or object about which they are exercised, they much differ: for, the magistratical power is exercised politically, about persons and things without the Church, as well as within the church; but the ecclesiastical power is exercised only upon them that are within the Church, 1 Cor.v. 13. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts, which did not give a licence to remarry.
Ecclesiastical Polity," Book I., had affirmed the sovereignty or legislative power of the people as the ultimate authority, and had also declared for an original social contract, "all public regiment of what kind soever seemeth evidently to have risen from deliberate advice, consultation, and composition between men, judging it convenient and behoveful. The Rise of the Democracy
the candidate was ecclesiastically endorsed
The preface to the reader made it abundantly clear that it was aimed not at erudite ecclesiastical theologians but at ordinary people.
[105] It is one of Dr Owen’s best controversial treatises, being exhaustive, and yet not marked by that discursiveness which is the fault of some of his writings, and bringing into play some of his greatest excellencies as a writer, — his remarkable exegetical talent, his intimate knowledge of Scripture, and mastery of the stores of ecclesiastical history. Life of Dr Owen
Since convents were novelties in the Anglican Church, the ecclesiastical officials had not yet developed any means to supervise or to incorporate these women within the comprehensiveness of Anglicanism.
V of Wied in the reorganization and and adjustment of the ecclesiastical and civil law in the electoral province, and was the first to determine the jurisdiction of the archiepiscopate The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
The ecclesiastical and religious history exhibition ‘From heathendom to Christianity’ is housed inside Moster Amfi.
While I by no means wish to draw attention away from the growing revival of classical and Gothic church architecture, a judicious renewal of some varieties of Jugendstil art and architecture in an ecclesiastical context would establish a foundation for the development of a practical, beautiful new style that is nonetheless anchored in organic tradition in a way that most "contemporary" styles are not. Jugendstil
In another work, Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius presented a history of Christianity to show that God controlled human events.
The Gothic building boom reflected an era of growing power for the monarchy, the cities, and the bourgeoisie, and the cathedrals expressed civic pride fully as much as ecclesiastical glory.
Curran ought to restrict use of the term ‘teaching’ to the formal exercise of the ecclesiastical magisterium.
It may be, however, that at a deeper level than the ecclesiastical and economic reasons, there is a question of God's Providence.
The ecclesiastical fission has led to some tiny island villages being split religiously among as many as five different bodies.
In the east, the upper ecclesiastical echelons - patriarchs in particular - were recruited from monasteries and therefore were celibate, but ordinary priests were allowed to marry.
Eulogio Gillow was strongly favored in ecclesiastical and political circles, and was a particularly close friend of President Díaz. Did you know? The first Archbishop of Oaxaca: a miraculous birth and re-birth
One result of the centralizing of ecclesiastical administration in the Roman Curia during the course of the thirteenth century was that ecclesiastical benefices became more and more generally "collated," i.e. granted, directly by the Pope. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Romanus, St. Romanos the Melodist the great ecclesiastical lyrist of the Greek Church, composed for it a hymn The Birth of the Virgin
Among the canons of Nicæa (325) that do not specifically deal with the ordinary ecclesiastical provinces, canons 6 and 7 confirm the rights accorded by immemorial custom to certain great Churches, such as Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and the other eparchies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The following question was overtured, viz.: "Is it expedient to admit baptized slaves as witnesses in ecclesiastical judicatories where others cannot be had? Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
He did indeed go into exile rather than abandon his observance of the papal decree of 1099 condemning the lay investiture of clergy with churches and ecclesiastical offices.
Catholic religion that she put to death in various ways a hundred thousand men accused of Manichæism — “this being,” says the modest continuator of Echard, “the most impious, the most detestable, the most dangerous, the most abominable of all heresies, for ecclesiastical censures were weapons of no avail against men who acknowledged not the church.” A Philosophical Dictionary
There is no ecclesiastic authority, and I dare say there never will be one dominating ecclesiastical authority over all Pagans and Wiccans.
'Non posso più fare un verso: la vena è secca, e l'ingegno è stanco' (_Lettere_, vol.v. p. 90).] [Footnote 61: During the whole period of his Roman residence, Tasso, like his father in similar circumstances, hankered after ecclesiastical honors. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
The inroads of the Lombards had filled the city with a multitude of indigent refugees, for whose support Gregory made provision, using for this purpose the existing machinery of the ecclesiastical districts, each of which had its deaconry or "office of alms". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Byrd and Bull freed themselves from the old ecclesiastical modes, or ancient scales.
THE WRITING of this study was occasioned by a specific event relevant to today's interchurch or ecumenical relations and their evident conflict with the authentic ecclesiastical tradition of the Prophets, the Apostles and our Fathers and Mothers throughout the ages. Orrologion
The clergy also intervened in disputes through the provision of ecclesiastical sanctuary.
Some kind of cincture, we may further note, is included in almost every form of religious or ecclesiastical costume. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
That meant in practice that the Roman Catholic priests who ministered to the Acadians were paid by the King of France, and appointed by the Bishop of Quebec, and France expected them to play both a political and an ecclesiastical role.
He was unhappily married, bored with parish duties and ill-equipped to climb the ecclesiastical greasy pole, but his talents were finally being recognised.