Sentence examples for ecclesiastical issues from inspiring English sources

He is directly involved in more than 200 bodies, including 80 trusts and charities of which he is patron, and he has an automatic seat on the privy council and House of Lords where he speaks on behalf of the church on environmental and ecclesiastical issues.

And there were ecclesiastical issues (churches had developed in different ways and at different rates).

Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues, and unsuccessfully confronted St. Basil over the Nicene Creed.

Throughout his reign, King Otto found himself confronted by a recurring series of issues: partisanship of the Greeks, financial uncertainty, and ecclesiastical issues.

Otto found himself confronted by a number of intractable ecclesiastical issues: 1) monasticism, 2) Autocephaly, 3) the king as head of the Church and 4) toleration of other churches.

He was deeply religious, engaged with ecclesiastical issues and saw that his role as king was to honour God, extend the church, fight heresy and defend the established social order.

One result is a legal and ecclesiastical issue about what defines membership in a religious congregation.

Constantine's second involvement in an ecclesiastical issue followed the defeat of Licinius, but the controversy over Arianism, with its intricate explorations of the precise nature of the Trinity that were couched in difficult Greek, was as remote from Constantine's educational background as it was from his impatient, urgent temperament.

In it, he described a series of ecclesiastical volumes issued over the course of a century by a Benedictine abbey in France, "in ivory vellum covers, like a long procession of robed abbots".

His position was improved by the fact that during 379 the followers of the Nicene Creed gained ground, whereupon Theodosius on February 28, 380, without consulting the ecclesiastical authorities, issued an edict prescribing a creed that was to be binding on all subjects.

In excommunicating Johnson, the church had not only taken the life out of Mormons for E.R.A., but more importantly, it had strengthened its ability to command absolute obedience from its members no matter the issue, ecclesiastical or political.