Sentence examples for ecclesiastical appointments from inspiring English sources

She was, however, actively concerned with ecclesiastical appointments.

He held ecclesiastical appointments in Touraine and Poitou and afterward went to England, where King John influenced his election to the see of Winchester.

Equally important was royal control over all important ecclesiastical appointments, which the Catholic Monarchs insisted upon with ruthless disregard of all papal claims to the contrary.

In 1608 Laud entered the service of Richard Neile, bishop of Rochester, with whose help he secured a succession of ecclesiastical appointments.

In 1801, Napoleon imposed on the Vatican the Concordat, a treaty that regulated the practice of Roman Catholicism, giving the state approval over ecclesiastical appointments and responsibility for paying salaries to clergy members, who had to swear allegiance to France.

It first crystallized with a statute of limpieza, imposed in 1547 on the cathedral chapter of Toledo, by which purity of ancestry both from the "taint" of converso blood and from any accusations of heresy by the Inquisition was made a condition of all future ecclesiastical appointments.

This economic decline made the city's elite dependent on royal and ecclesiastical appointment and thus, reluctant to advocate independence.

Throughout his tenure he insisted that ecclesiastical and other appointments be justified by merit rather than by influence.

William seems to have been somewhat eclipsed in ecclesiastical administration and appointments by Roger of Salisbury, Bishop of Salisbury, and King Henry's primary advisor.

Their dispute over the control of appointments to ecclesiastical office initiated nearly two centuries of papal-imperial conflict.

Mac Murchada's considerable authority in Dublin at this point is apparent through several ecclesiastical grants, foundations, and appointments.