Sentence examples for church appointments from inspiring English sources

All church appointments were to be approved by the state.

The son of an aristocratic Florentine family, Barberini filled many distinguished church appointments.

Senior church appointments are still nominally made by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister based on recommendations by the church.

In the extreme regalists' view, the state should take care of charity and education, and it should subject priests to civil jurisdiction for civil crimes and assert the traditional rights of the crown over church appointments.

The June 25 announcement of her appointment makes no mention of her orientation or of her longtime partner, Sarah Ogilvie, though in the past, similar announcements of significant church appointments have mentioned family members and spouses.

Beijing church leaders will ordain Bishop Joseph Li Shan this week, a senior religious official said, filling an influential post that had been closely watched to gauge whether the government would consult with the Vatican on church appointments.

His first church appointment was a curacy at Holy Trinity Church, Windsor, Berkshire, with an additional role as assistant chaplain to the Household Cavalry at Combermere Barracks.

In 1700 he gave up his church appointment and for 40 years enjoyed a wide reputation for his stage works.

In addition, although William had quarreled bitterly with the papacy over a church appointment, Pope Celestine III ruled in 1192 that the Scottish church owed obedience only to Rome, not to England.

His family selected him to enter the priesthood because he showed intellectual potential, and because in those days in France it was a way to acquire wealth through a lucrative church appointment.

Just as there was furious and corrupt jockeying for high office in the Orthodox church, the appointment of the hospodars was also accompanied by intrigue and corruption.