Sentence examples for clerical discipline from inspiring English sources

A reformer, Isaac tightened clerical discipline and enforced celibacy on Armenian bishops.

The sacrament of penance was extensively defined, extreme unction (later, the anointing of the sick) explained, and decrees issued on episcopal jurisdiction and clerical discipline.

The immediate issues between the two sees were matters of ecclesiastical supremacy, the liturgy, and clerical discipline; behind those sources of division lay the question of jurisdiction over the converts in Bulgaria.

From the early 17th century, when the clerical discipline the Pilgrim Fathers sought to impose broke down and those who had things to say struck out westward or southward for the freedom to say them, America has been a land of unrestricted comment on anything--until recently.

The new norm "does not signify any change in the church's discipline of clerical celibacy," the Vatican press office said in a statement.

In order to allow structured follow-up, recommendations are classified into the following disciplines; administration and clerical, radiography, radiology, medical physics/user QA, pathology, surgery, nursing and management.

Church discipline was as meaningless for clerical murderers and thieves in the 12th century as it has been for clerical sexual predators in our times.

In addition, we elicited information about the DPD; the year of establishment, profession of the person in charge, composition of staff according to discipline (medical social worker, nurse/public health nurse, clerical staff, and physician), and services provided separate from discharge planning.

The insistence on clerical celibacy in the Latin rite is no more than a matter of discipline rather than of basic faith, and which therefore could be varied.

He argues that the "masculinisation of computing" was a contingent social and political process that attempted to restructure what was at first thought of as a clerical, "mechanical" service – similar to those provided by secretaries or telephone switchboard operators – into a demanding intellectual discipline requiring intelligence and creativity.

That same day, Officer Collins said, she went to Internal Affairs and was reassured that a clerical worker who had witnessed the talk supported her claim that she was not disrespectful and would not be disciplined.