Papal bull, excommunication, or anything of the kind.
Leclerc, Jean, a wool-carder of Meaux, tears down a papal bull, i.
The particular occasion of it, however, seems to have been the opposition which he offered to the reception of a papal bull.
L'Hospital and Lorraine respecting the chancellor's refusal to affix his signature to a papal bull, ii.
The above rule having been confirmed by a Papal bull, Hugh de Payens proceeded to France, and from thence he came to England, and the following account is given of his arrival, in the Saxon chronicle.
On the 25th of November, a provincial council of the church, summoned by the archbishop of Canterbury, in obedience to a papal bull, assembled in the cathedral church of St. Paul.
The significance of the persecutions lies in the virtual creation of a heresy by a papal bull.
If it was heresy to disobey a papal bull--granted that that had to be disobeyed--why not go to the full length of rejecting the papacy and declaring it superseded by the era of St. Francis and the Holy Ghost?
The Saint Thomas' University (under the direction of Dominican friars) now disputed the Jesuits' privilege to confer degrees, claiming for themselves exclusive right by Papal Bull.
He was translated by papal bull in 1436 to Lincoln.
The Cardinal-legate could not believe that Luther would venture to resist a papal bull, and thought he had probably not read it.
Papal bull of Leo X against Luther, who publicly burns it.
Though this edict had not the authority of a papal Bull, yet it showed which party the decision of the Pope would favour, and the chroniclers agree in taking this date as the final decision of the matter.
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