Legate, also called Papal Legate, in the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric sent on a mission, ecclesiastical or diplomatic, by the pope as his personal representative.
On November 4, 2014 Pope Francis appointed Rev. Giovanni M. Scalese, CRSP as the Ecclesiastical Superior of the Mission Sui Iuris in Afghanistan.
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) affirms a free and voluntary covenantal relationship binding members, congregations, regions, and general units in one ecclesiastical body committed to a mission of witness and service.
4. Upon leaving for your mission, when your ecclesiastical leader asks you if you've ever looked at porn and you tell him "Yes….but it was gay porn".
Aquileia's ecclesiastical importance was much enhanced by the mission of Bishop Paolino II (died 802) to the Avars and Slovenes, and in the 11th century Aquileia acquired extensive political privileges and feudal dominions, largely from the German kings.
The prelates, too, saw their missions as means to found ecclesiastical empires of subject dioceses that would exact tribute from the conquered Wends.
Other missions concentrated on arranging an ecclesiastical court to meet in England, with a representative from Clement VII.
A similar amount goes to parishes and missions at the coal face of ecclesiastical life.
The canon law was set down especially in the Capitularia ecclesiastica ("Ecclesiastical Articles") of the prince, as well as in the Capitularia missionum ("Mission Articles"; i.e., instructions given by the prince to the bishops and abbots who visited in his name).
A great number of new orders came into existence and spread the spirit and institutions of ecclesiastical nursing care throughout the world as part of Roman Catholic world missions.
