Sentence examples for ecclesiastical law from inspiring English sources

For services to Ecclesiastical Law and to charity in Hertfordshire.

Her first interests were ecclesiastical law and administration.

More widely, it is any contract of this kind forbidden by divine or ecclesiastical law.

Within the Church, celibacy is a matter not of religious dogma but of ecclesiastical law.

Was 15th-century Florence scandalised by this outrageous defiance of ecclesiastical law?

Forward in Faith, however, wants their authority in those parishes removed by ecclesiastical law.

Along with Absalon, Eskil introduced the first ecclesiastical laws to Denmark and was a great founder of monasteries.

The systematic collections and there were many of them contained canons of councils, ecclesiastical laws (nomoi) of the emperors, or both together (nomocanons).

At this time Cranmer also attempted to revise the canon law of the English church, a proposal never enacted but published in 1571 as the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum ("The Reformation of Ecclesiastical Laws").

A reformed confession of faith and a prayer book were adopted, but the reformation of the ecclesiastical laws that would have defined the basis of discipline was blocked by the nobility in Parliament.

Among his many activities, Maximus took part in the preparation of a corrected and critical edition of the Kormchaya kniga, a Slavic version of the Byzantine ecclesiastical laws collected as the Nomocanon.