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.
*Data Sources: E2H Clerical Staff and DIMR (Data Integration, Measurement and Reporting).
Religion — in the form of politicized Islam — is the foundation of the state and the sole source of clerical leaders' legitimacy.
Montazeri's death removed one of the last sources of vocal clerical opposition to Khamenei.
The Brennan Center's seminal report on this issue, The Truth About Voter Fraud, found that most reported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or bad data matching practices.
It follows that the only reform that would tackle the evil of clerical sexual abuse at its source would be to raise the age, from seven to (say) 13, at which children are first given communion and confession, which inculcates their reverence for the priesthood.
The web sites of the clerics, Grand Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei and Grand Ayatollah Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani, who are both "sources of emulation," the highest clerical rank in Shiite Islam, were first reported blocked by news sites linked with Iran's political opposition movement on Sunday.
Her mother, who once did clerical work in a bank, was the source of her inspiration.
Systematic review of all positive results and tracing back to source documents detected (and rectified) clerical errors.
When normal sources did not satisfy papal ambition, clerical underlings invented new kinds of revenue — like the granting of time off in Purgatory for cash contributions during life ("indulgences" for sale).
