Sentence examples for ecclesiastical functions from inspiring English sources

The Byzantine ideal of church-state relations was a "symphony" between the civil and the ecclesiastical functions of Christian society.

By the early 20th century the growth of the Roman Curia had produced a bewildering tangle of administrative and judicial bodies in which neither temporal and ecclesiastical functions nor executive and judicial powers were clearly demarcated.

Natives were also removed from high governmental and ecclesiastical office.

He also held ecclesiastical office, eventually becoming Archdeacon of Taunton, and served King John of England as an administrator of ecclesiastical lands and a collector of taxes.

While executing ecclesiastical and political functions, he taught the liberal arts at the patriarchal academy of the Basilica of Hagia Sophia.

Orthodox icon painting is not to be separated from its ecclesiastical and liturgical function.

And it is one of the few times of the year that one can appreciate the sheer beauty of functioning ecclesiastical architecture.

However the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866 declared a divergence between the historic ecclesiastical parish and administrative functions within the locality, thus creating civil parishes.

Philotheus actively intervened in the political and ecclesiastical affairs of Russia, consolidating administrative functions under a single metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia (who actually resided in Moscow).

Until 1881, the south transept, which is unusually large, also took on a separate function as an independent ecclesiastical entity: the parish church of St Oswald.

The culture of wearing the costumes in academic functions was greatly influenced by ecclesiastical dress of the mediaeval clergy (apparel.com 2007).