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Example sentences for "ecclesiastical matters"

  • It would seem that the intervention of the audiencia in ecclesiastical matters developed in the same manner and for the same reason as it came to have authority in matters of government, finance and military administration.

  • The other collection related to ecclesiastical matters, from the time of Henry VIII.

  • The absolute supremacy of the Conqueror in ecclesiastical matters is expressed in three rules which he is said to have laid down, and which define his rights in relation to the papacy.

  • When Theodore had thus established his authority, he proceeded to give the Church a diocesan system and a means of legislation in ecclesiastical matters.

  • Might it not be brought into nearer conformity, and might not conformity in ecclesiastical matters lead to the political incorporation which Bern so ardently desired?

  • The Council and the Syndics treated the new pastors as their servants, compelled them to render strict obedience to all their decisions in ecclesiastical matters, and considered religion as a political affair.

  • Constantine endeavored to end the dispute by a letter, and, failing in this, sent Hosius of Cordova, his adviser in ecclesiastical matters, to Alexandria in 324.

  • The only circumstance in which their proceedings were disagreeable to her, was an application, made by the commons, for a further reformation in ecclesiastical matters.

  • There followed a heated controversy, in the course of which the pope laid down the principle that the emperor has no authority in ecclesiastical matters.

  • Note the plain statement that the emperor has no authority in ecclesiastical matters.

  • But secular matters are based on one thing, ecclesiastical matters on another.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abandon their; answered the young captain; beyond question; cannot pass; ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical architecture; ecclesiastical authorities; ecclesiastical authority; ecclesiastical court; ecclesiastical discipline; ecclesiastical government; ecclesiastical history; ecclesiastical jurisdiction; ecclesiastical matters; ecclesiastical power; ecclesiastical property; ecclesiastical unity; hath promised; heard voices; ils ont; papal bull; pray take; said hurriedly; stand thou; unconditional submission; when called