Sentence examples for ecclesiastical figures from inspiring English sources

They're ecclesiastical figures for the whole infotainment culture".

The criticism from the MCB comes after the CofE last week attacked the government's lack of consultation over its gay marriage plans, saying senior ecclesiastical figures learned of them only when Miller announced them to parliament.

The Church of England has attacked the Government's lack of consultation over its gay marriage plans, saying senior ecclesiastical figures learned of them only when Culture Secretary Maria Miller announced them to Parliament.

Godfrey also acknowledged himself as a vassal of Daimbert, patriarch of Jerusalem, thus laying the foundation for future struggles between lay and ecclesiastical figures who sought to control the kingdom.

Government and the relation of divine justice to human law, both secular and ecclesiastical, figure as occasional themes throughout the treatises of the Summa de Ente.

One was that it was the final step of an ambitious ecclesiastical figure who had coveted the seat of St Peter for many a year of his clerical life.

He inherited from Ecgfrith a troubled relationship with Wilfrid, a major ecclesiastical figure of the time.

His Correspondence, containing more than 160 letters, is a rich source for knowledge of the outstanding Byzantine ecclesiastical and political figures of the period.

But what unites them all is a preoccupation with the bishop, that ecclesiastical bossy-boots figure who fingers the cross that bounces up and down the heaving and preachy chest.

Yet the story of the Tintoretto painting is intriguing and involves several figures of ecclesiastical and historical prominence.

Nonetheless, Henson ranked Lang "among the greater figures of ecclesiastical history".