The English had no difficulty in finding an ecclesiastical court to judge their prisoner.
Wycliffe was summoned to appear before an ecclesiastical court at St. Paul's, presided over by Courtenay, the Bishop of London.
Then a clerk who had committed a rape and a murder had been acquitted in an ecclesiastical court.
The authorities of Bern had been careful to establish an ecclesiastical Court, the Consistory, of two pastors and three Councillors, who dealt with all ecclesiastical details.
Colloquy, an ecclesiastical court in the French Protestant Church, 168.
The earlier laws required the minister of a parish to question every newcomer as to his religious beliefs, but there is no record of any Protestant dissenter or any Calvinist having been presented for trial before an ecclesiastical court.
Under that law an ecclesiastical person, either priest or monk, who was charged with a felony could not be tried by a civil court but was delivered up to the bishop of his diocese for trial in an ecclesiastical court.
Throughout the century the law required every citizen to attend the parish church, but there was never an ecclesiastical court in which a layman could be tried, convicted or punished as a dissenter.
We forbid all persons in our land to summon, sue, or denounce another on a secular charge before an ecclesiastical court.
The day after the feast of St. Peter the chaplain shall hold a synod [an ecclesiastical court] in the old house of the archbishop before the chapel of St. John, and he shall sit in the stone chair which is there.
If the case is ecclesiastical and legally comes under the jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical court, the plaintiff shall bring it before some ecclesiastical court in our country, and be content with the decision rendered there.
It will be, at any rate, expedient that in such a case the matter should be brought before an ecclesiastical court.
Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ecclesiastical court" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
