Sentence examples for ecclesiastical administration from inspiring English sources

It was accepted everywhere in the ecclesiastical administration of justice and government.

As cardinal and papal legate, Wolsey thereafter aggressively interfered with Warham's ecclesiastical administration of the archbishopric.

From the time that the Gregorian reformation introduced a more centralized ecclesiastical administration, the number of appeals to Rome and the number of papal decisions mounted.

The introduction of the zemstvo system in 1869 provided a measure of local autonomy, but a policy of Russification in both civil and ecclesiastical administration was thereafter pursued, with little effect on the largely illiterate peasantry.

Columban, however, by his individualism and austere puritanism, came into conflict not only with the Merovingian rulers of Gaul but also with the local ecclesiastical administration; his limitations exemplify those of the Irish monastic system as a whole and explain why, in the end, it was supplanted by the ordinary administrative system of the church.

Introduced to ecclesiastical administration by Ivor Ramsay, then Dean of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh (and later Dean of King's College, Cambridge), Guild went on to become Registrar of the Episcopal Synod (1967-2007) and Chancellor of the Diocese of Edinburgh (1985-1995).

But by the end of the century, Russification in both the civil and ecclesiastical administrations was the dominant policy.

With Hermann von Mittnacht as chief minister (from 1876 to 1900), Württemberg found a comfortable place in the new Germany, retaining its independence in internal administration, ecclesiastical affairs, and education and also in the management of the postal and railway services.

In 1278, when Bologna and the Romagna were incorporated into the Papal States, Durand was one of the first group of commissioners sent there; subsequently he held various posts in the ecclesiastical and temporal administrations of the new province, becoming its governor general in 1283.

Although the relations between Pope and Emperor were relatively amiable, Charlemagne controlled imperial administration and ecclesiastical reform.

In 1718 Maurepas was made secretary of state for the king's household, thereby gaining authority over ecclesiastical affairs and the administration of Paris.