First, Ferdinand had rushed the article on ecclesiastical reservation through the debate; it had not undergone the scrutiny and discussion that attended the wide-spread acceptance and support of cuius regio, eius religio.
Next comes Parliament, where an ecclesiastical committee "scrutinizes" it and Commons and Lords debate it — after which it goes to the Queen for "royal assent".
Property disputes arose over who owned the mission (and adjacent) lands, between the Spanish crown, the Catholic Church, the Natives and the Spanish settlers of San Jose: There were "heated debates" between "the Spanish State and ecclesiastical bureaucracies" over the government authority of the missions.
Rather, like all "theses" in those days, they were points to be thrashed out in public disputations, in the manner of the ecclesiastical scholars of the twelfth century or, for that matter, the debate clubs of tradition-minded universities in our own time.
His debate with the openly apocalyptic Dalmatian bishop Hesychius in 418 419 indicates that ecclesiastical leaders, almost a decade after Rome's sack, remained intensely apocalyptic in their reading of contemporary history.
Its theme is the fifth-century debate between Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, over various arcane ecclesiastical and theological issues.
Debates raged over the sacraments, over the two natures of Christ, over the relationship of ecclesiastical and civil realms, and over the part humans played in salvation.
It's the ecclesiastical Oscars.
There were also ecclesiastical schools.
What are Archbishop Nichols' ecclesiastical qualifications?
