Sentence examples for ecclesiastical domain from inspiring English sources

Lower Engadin, not entirely an ecclesiastical domain, was in the 8th century assigned by Charlemagne to the counts of Toggenburg and was absorbed into what came to be known as the county of Tirol, which passed to the Habsburgs in 1363.

After the deaths of Calvin and his successor, Beza, the Geneva city council gradually gained control over areas of life that were previously in the ecclesiastical domain.

The Scandinavian influence in Scotland was probably at its height in the mid eleventh century during the time of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, who attempted to create a single political and ecclesiastical domain stretching from Shetland to Man.

Charlemagne used the church to hold his empire together and to enforce overlordship on the Papal States, while Adrian fought firmly but adroitly for ecclesiastical autonomy and painstakingly pieced together a papal domain that was not lost until the 19th century.

Terriers were surveys of the sources, chiefly land or 'gleeb', owned by each ecclesiastical parish in England and Wales.

He divided the state among his sons; the oldest became the senior duke, whose domain included the capital in Kraków and who had general powers over military, foreign, and ecclesiastical matters.

It's the ecclesiastical Oscars.

There were also ecclesiastical schools.

What are Archbishop Nichols' ecclesiastical qualifications?

Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.

He certainly held ecclesiastical benefices.