Sentence examples for ecclesiastical centre from inspiring English sources

Noyon formerly was an important ecclesiastical centre.

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

The ecclesiastical centre of Peterborough, destroyed by the Danes, was refounded during the 10th century.

In medieval times it was an ecclesiastical centre with five abbeys.

Ohrid became a major administrative and ecclesiastical centre in the early Middle Ages.

Salisbury has long been the ecclesiastical centre of the county and is renowned for its 13th-century cathedral.

Rather, say historians following a three-year-study, the fact it survived was down to church scribes based at the ecclesiastical centres in Lincoln and Salisbury.

Its ecclesiastical parish, centred on St John the Baptist's Church, was tiny in comparison to neighbouring Worth and Ifield.

In time, a lasting monastic network an ecclesiastical familia was centred on the island, and led by his successors.

The crisis arrived when Chalcis became involved with ecclesiastical and theological controversies centring on episcopal succession and Trinitarian (on the nature of the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and christological (on the nature of Christ) disputes.

India's ancient Christians looked to the Assyrian Church of the East (often disparaged as "Nestorian" by Western or Roman Catholic Christians, who associated it with the anathematized bishop Nestorius) and its catholicos (or patriarch), for ecclesiastical authority and to centres of learning in Edessa and Nisibis for instruction.