Mr. Dunham described him as a "quiet, almost ecclesiastical" man, focused on seeking out important finds rather than "what's fashionable or what's obviously sellable".
He liked to expose secular news organizations to the order's philosophy, and over time his classic, square-jawed good looks — he resembled some ecclesiastical man of steel, ready to star in "Superman Genuflects" — led to television time as a Vatican analyst.
He supported the cause of reform by gradually replacing the old guard in his ecclesiastical province with men who followed the new thinking such as Hugh Latimer.
In 1607 Parliament openly asked for Coke's opinion on the High Commission's practices; he replied that "No man ecclesiastical or temporal shall be examined upon secret thoughts of his heart or of his secret opinion".
Already a widespread liberal Catholic evangelical reform sought to correct moral abuses such as clerical concubinage, financial extortion, and pluralism (i.e., the holding of several ecclesiastical benefices by one man).
Now Tredwell is a self-effacing man with an ecclesiastical air, not given to an excess of an emotion, but soon he was surrounded by adoring colleagues eager to embrace him.
His poetic works reflect the tension between his Horatian ideals of moderation and the turbulent life of a man of an honest and naturally pugnacious temperament inhabiting a world of ecclesiastical intrigue and rancorous academic politics.
In these statues, which had an ecclesiastical aura, Bashi was El Dorado, the Man of Gold, all-powerful, all-knowing.
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.
After the death of Ralph d'Escures in October 1122, King Henry I decided to allow a free election, with the new primate to be chosen by the leading men of the realm, both ecclesiastical and secular.
When Francis was about twenty-five, Pietooktook him to the town's ecclesiastical court and explained how the young man had disregarded his responsibilities.
