Sentence examples for ecclesiastical centers from inspiring English sources

A millennium ago, Hildesheim, in northern Germany, was one of the ecclesiastical centers of Western Europe.

It is also certain that Johannes had been installed for some time at the court of Charles the Bald, the Westfrankish king, but he was also associated with other ecclesiastical centers, including Rheims, Laon, Soissons and Compigne.

"And this represents a monumental shift in what has been called the ecclesiastical center of gravity".

Since the 12th century, it has been the ecclesiastical center of Sweden, and it is the site of the oldest university in Sweden.

Noyon formerly was an important ecclesiastical centre.

The city was (and remains) a commercial and ecclesiastical centre.

When another New York troupe, the Epic Theater Ensemble, began the search for a theater for the first New York production of "Passion Play," Sarah Ruhl's bold 2005 triptych about religious history, the center's 19th-century ecclesiastical interior seemed perfect.

In the Middle Ages ecclesiastical art was primarily didactic.

These two institutions have joined forces with the Hermitage Italia Foundation and Prato's Textile Museum to lay out some of these fabulous wares, and relate the story of how they found their way east to the centers of Russian political and ecclesiastical power, in "The Style of the Czar: Art and Fashion between Italy and Russia from the 14th to the 18th Century".

Other hearts have also been aching over St. John's, a grand but moldering granite church in the Bergen Hill neighborhood that is at the center of perhaps the only ecclesiastical preservation battle that features cameo appearances by the Black Panthers and a Hollywood filmmaker.

This one took shape in the early Middle Ages, as "Europe" became a constituent third of the world in simplified ecclesiastical geography, together with Africa and Asia converging on Jerusalem – the center of the world.