Sentence examples for ecclesiastical censure from inspiring English sources
Excommunication, form of ecclesiastical censure by which a person is excluded from the communion of believers, the rites or sacraments of a church, and the rights of church membership, but not necessarily from membership in the church as such.
The bishop said her claim that God, angels, and saints had told her to don male attire was contrary to the modesty of women, was prohibited by divine law, and was forbidden by ecclesiastical censure on pain of anathema.
He was subject to ecclesiastical censure during his lifetime, a fact that no doubt contributes to the relatively few explicit citations of him in the later Middle Ages.
Meanwhile, the bishop has placed ecclesiastical censure, tantamount to excommunication, against four of Mitchell's main supporters, including attorney Griffin.
Allying himself with John, Pandulph used ecclesiastical censures, including excommunication, to avert a threatened French invasion of England and suspended Archbishop Langton for refusing to excommunicate the barons and for extracting the Magna Carta (charter of liberties) from the king (June 19 , 1215.
Noyon formerly was an important ecclesiastical centre.
For yielding to France and complying with Philip, for turning against Henry, for practicing simony (selling ecclesiastical offices), and for transferring the papal see from Rome to Avignon, Clement was censured by Dante in Inferno XIX as "a shepherd without law, of uglier deed" and a "new Jason".
He censured the powerful archbishop Hincmar of Reims for excommunicating an imperial vassal without papal approval, and he excommunicated Cardinal Anastasius of San Marcello (later the antipope Anastasius Bibliothecarius), in 853, to enforce ecclesiastical obedience to Rome.
The ecclesiastical allegiances of his supporters, however, only demonstrate the irony and loneliness of Tyconius's position: although he was a Donatist who incurred his own church's censure, he never went over to the Catholics.
Facing Congressional censure, Benjamin resigned.
It's the ecclesiastical Oscars.
