Sentence examples for ecclesiastical councils from inspiring English sources
Several ecclesiastical councils attempted to abolish or restrain the abuses of the custom, and the Council of Basel prohibited it in 1431.
In 1095, for example, Urban II was in a position strong enough to convoke two important ecclesiastical councils, despite meeting resistance from Henry IV, the German emperor, who opposed papal reform policies.
Constantine established the principle that emperors could not settle questions of doctrine on their own, but should summon instead general ecclesiastical councils for that purpose.
The archbishop held ecclesiastical councils, including one at York in 1195 that legislated that the clergy should collect their tithes in full, "...without any reduction".
The legates and the king then proceeded to hold a series of ecclesiastical councils dedicated to reforming and reorganising the English church.
Consequently, the diet of the empire (not an ecclesiastical council), meeting at Worms in the winter and spring of 1521 would hear his case.
Its senior minister, Nancy Taylor, hoisted a massive Bible from underneath a coffee table in her wood-paneled office one recent afternoon and pointed to an inscription on the back made when Samuel Adams attended an ecclesiastical council here in 1793.
The very first ecclesiastical council, according to tradition, took place when, as narrated in Acts 15, the Apostles and elders met in Jerusalem to determine the conditions under which Gentiles were to be admitted to the church.
They also went because of the increasingly strict requirements for artists who executed religious subjects; these rules were imposed by an ecclesiastical council in 1555 and reinforced in Mexico by the establishment of an artists' guild in 1557.
When John showed no signs of submitting, Walter called an ecclesiastical council at Westminster for the purposes of excommunicating John unless he submitted.
At an ecclesiastical council held at Lambeth in 1281, Peckham ordered the clergy to instruct their congregations in doctrine at least four times a year.
