The so-called Second Epistle of John is one of the excommunicating notes occasionally despatched by early Christian leaders to a community (cf.
This experiment was renewed four years after with success by Martin the nuncio, who brought from Rome powers of suspending and excommunicating all clergymen that refused to comply with his demands.
The ecclesiastical Court of High Commission enforced the edicts of the church, excommunicating those who did not conform and expelling clergymen who, for instance, did not bow at the name of Jesus or wear the surplice.
February 28th, Ferdinand vainly endeavored to induce the inquisitor to make Royz yield by excommunicating him, and he then appealed to Suarez de Fuentelsaz, one of the inquisitors-general, but equally without success.
The council replied to this snub by excommunicating her, but it is a significant sign of the {334} times that neither they nor the pope as yet dared to use spiritual weapons to depose her, as the pope endeavored to do a few years later.
In the next the same Pope is excommunicating the King of England in the year 1537; with the proper inscription.
A good example is provided of Philip’s subordination of religion to politics by his attitude when the pope’s bull excommunicating Elizabeth was fixed by Felton on the Bishop of London’s gate.
September 1585) excommunicating him, his cousin Condé, “and the whole of this bastard and detestable race of Bourbon.
Five hundred years later the Roman pontiffs were excommunicating and torturing those who taught the rotundity of the earth.
As early as the time of Cyprian the custom of excommunicating the dead had come into fashion; and about 382 St. John Chrysostom had denounced the frequency of such sentences as an interference attempted with the judgment of God.
An abbot also had the power of excommunicating refractory nuns, which he might use if desired by their abbess.
Even spiders, too, runs the legend, were included in this summary process of excommunicating the serpent race.
Bishop of Ely attended the service of the church at Bermondsey, Southwark, leaving his hawk in the cloister, which in the meantime was stolen--the bishop solemnly excommunicating the thieves.
Luther, Stephen, Bishop of Rome, began to act the pope in good earnest,—excommunicating those who dissented from the doctrines of Rome.
The Pope aided these conspirators by a bull excommunicating Elizabeth, denying her right to the crown she wore, and releasing her subjects from their allegiance.
The Pope issued a decree excommunicating Henry and relieving his subjects from their allegiance.
I never thought it expedient the liberty of excommunicating should be permitted to every pastor.
As touching the prelates themselves, I pray, by what warrant have they appropriated to themselves the whole external jurisdiction of binding and loosing, excommunicating and absolving?
The excess of insolence of the newly-fledged rabbi of Lublin inexcommunicating gray-haired rabbis aroused the leading men in the communities.
He had the hardihood to meet the suspicions against himself by excommunicating the Sabbatians (1725).
This referred immediately to the case of the Bishop of Ermeland and others, for excommunicating disobedient priests.
The Bishop of Ermeland still survives the terrible threats of the chancellor which have been gathering over his head in deepening thunder this long while for excommunicating heretic priests; the bolt has not yet fallen.
Mexico has decreed civil marriage, as has also Brazil, whose Masonic premier and cabinet are entering on a persecution of the bishops for excommunicating members of secret societies.
For, The instance of the church of Corinth excommunicating the incestuous person, will not prove the congregation to be the first subject of all church authority: 1.
Who durst have a hand in the censures of admonishing the unruly, excommunicating the scandalous and obstinate, and of restoring the penitent, were there not a divine right hereof revealed in the Scripture, &c.
Two years before, in July, 1807, the Emperor had asked scornfully: "What does the Pope mean by the threat of excommunicating me?
The Pope had long felt the necessity of excommunicating his enemies, but had forborne up to this time in the hope that the Emperor might display some spirit of repentance.
Here's been fineexcommunicating work between the bishop and the king.
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