Sentence examples for ecclesiastical body from inspiring English sources

The first general convention met at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849 and launched the American Christian Missionary Society as a "society of individuals" and not an ecclesiastical body.

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) affirms a free and voluntary covenantal relationship binding members, congregations, regions, and general units in one ecclesiastical body committed to a mission of witness and service.

Increasingly, most of us (the devout included) relate to scientific, historic and cross-cultural evidence as more authoritative than the dictates of an all-male ecclesiastical body or a literalist reading of Scripture.

There was a resolution introduced in the House a in January 1862 that included a provision stating that no more than one-fourth of the chaplains at any given time could belong to the same ecclesiastical body, but nothing appears to have come of this.

By the Statute of Mortmain (1279) the crown gained control of the acquisition of land by ecclesiastical bodies.

It accepted that given the constitution's guarantee of the "free exercise" of religion, religious bodies should be free to select their own ministers.Both verdicts upheld what conservatives see as religious freedom above all, the freedom of ecclesiastical bodies to organise their own affairs and set the rules for people who (presumably of their own free will) join or serve them.

As a way of cutting Serbia down to size, the party bosses agreed in 1967 that it would be a good idea if the republic of Macedonia had its own Orthodox church, instead of being part of the Serbian one.Under Orthodox rules, new ecclesiastical bodies normally gain independence not through communist fiat but by the consent of their mother church, and of the other Orthodox churches round the world.

In British churchyards, which fall under ecclesiastical law, bodies can be moved and graves re-deployed, though they rarely are.

The bishops will find their way and will lead, not because they are held accountable to any specific ecclesiastical or lay body, but because they will discern the special responsibility they have in governance, unimpeded by any concern other than the whole people of the church.

While these collections did not form a closed body of ecclesiastical law prohibiting any new laws from being added, no new official collections of church law were promulgated between the Clementinae and the Council of Trent (1545 63).

Abbots and priors lost their seats in the House of Lords; only archbishops and bishops came to comprise the ecclesiastical element of the body.