Sentence examples for ecclesiastical divisions from inspiring English sources

The five metropolitan sees of Toledo (which claimed the primacy), Tarragona, Braga, Compostela, and Sevilla formed the principal ecclesiastical divisions in Spain.

Tiffany's companies -– Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, New York and, starting 1902, Tiffany Studios -– created hundreds and hundreds of stained-glass windows for churches and for a couple of handfuls of synagogues throughout the United States, particularly after it opened an ecclesiastical division in 1899.

The Roman cause prevailed and the former division of ecclesiastical authorities was set aside.

At the Synod of Whitby, in 664, the Roman cause prevailed and the division of ecclesiastical authorities ceased.

During the 1150s he was forced to accept the division of Sweden and Norway into separate ecclesiastical provinces, but he retained primacy over Uppsala (in Sweden).

Witnesses do not use elder as a title to signify a formal clergy-laity division, though elders may employ ecclesiastical privilege such as confession of sins.

Ecclesiastical chants were a fundamental part of this genre.

Historically, Poulton-le-Fylde was one of seven ecclesiastical parishes of the Amounderness hundred, an ancient division of the historic county of Lancashire, with a total area of.

The immediate issues between the two sees were matters of ecclesiastical supremacy, the liturgy, and clerical discipline; behind those sources of division lay the question of jurisdiction over the converts in Bulgaria.

Another cause of division was the popularity of the teachings of John Wycliffe, an English ecclesiastical reformer of the previous century, among the Czech masters and students.

"Periodically, we have to kind of reclaim the ecclesiastical turf, if you will," said Col. Paul M. Kelly, a former New York division commander who was brought in as a consultant last year to assess its operations.