Sentence examples for ecclesiastical assembly from inspiring English sources

Just six decades after the student's rant to his friends, an Edinburgh ecclesiastical assembly attempted to excommunicate the freethinking Scottish philosopher David Hume.

Although the Councils of Toledo were essentially ecclesiastical assemblies, they had an exceptional impact on the government of the realm.

Convocations of Canterbury and York, in the Church of England, ecclesiastical assemblies of the provinces of Canterbury and of York that meet two or three times a year and, since the mid-19th century, have been concerned particularly with the reform of the canons of ecclesiastical law.

At the request of the Pope (who had ordered the deposition of Conrad IV) he was elected German king in May 1246 by an assembly of ecclesiastical princes.

According to Simon Keynes: In this period, a diploma can be characterised as a formal and symbolic record, in Latin, of an occasion when the king, acting in a royal assembly, and with the consent of the ecclesiastical and secular orders, created an estate of "bookland" at a specified place, and conveyed it on the privileged terms defined by the "book", or diploma, to a named beneficiary.

Moderators of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church are entitled to a black ecclesiastical hat with 10 blue tassels on each side, and moderators of synods and of presbyteries to a hat with six and three tassels, respectively, on each side.

It's the ecclesiastical Oscars.

There were also ecclesiastical schools.

What are Archbishop Nichols' ecclesiastical qualifications?

Other enemies included wealthy ecclesiastical landowners.

Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.