Sentence examples for ecclesiastical offices from inspiring English sources

Election to ecclesiastical offices (i.e., pastor, bishop, or patriarch) involves participation by both clergy and laity.

The Spirit, which is expressed in the various officeholders of the church, likewise founds the authority of ecclesiastical offices.

After an investigation of the issue, Pope Alexander in June 1256 suspended William from all academic and ecclesiastical offices and sought his expulsion from France.

Elected patriarch in 1572 by popular acclaim, Jeremias immediately instituted a reform by disciplining the clergy and prosecuting simony (the sale and purchase of ecclesiastical offices).

While no one is suggesting that our government today is "filling ecclesiastical offices," some of its strategies to undercut radical Islamic ideology are a step in that direction.

He granted Poland its first archbishop (in 1000), and he denounced simony (the buying and selling of ecclesiastical offices) and nepotism and demanded celibacy.

Their dispute over the control of appointments to ecclesiastical office initiated nearly two centuries of papal-imperial conflict.

Much of the big business of the city remained in the hands of outsiders, however, for the wealth and power of the Roman nobility was based on land and ecclesiastical office holding.

By 1960 there were more than 300 members, mostly dignitaries who held or had held high political, judicial, or ecclesiastical office, along with an occasional eminent person in science or letters.

Hildebrand served as one of his chaplains (acolytes) and accompanied him into exile at Cologne (now in Germany) after the pope had been deposed for simony (paying money for ecclesiastical office) at the Council of Sutri in December 1046.

Although the investiture controversy has been the focus of much attention, it was less important to reformers than the issues of canonical elections, simony (the purchase of ecclesiastical office), and clerical celibacy.