The investiture battle over the conflicting asserted rights of lay or ecclesiastical officials to invest a church official with the symbols of his spiritual office ended in France, England, and Germany (Concordat of Worms, 1122) in compromises.
Healing within the church began to retreat only in connection with the transformation of the church into a state church under Constantine and with the replacement of free charismatics by ecclesiastical officials.
In the early years of the 15th century, after a century of turmoil, ecclesiastical officials convened in Constance in 1414, and the following year the council deposed one of the rival popes, leaving only two claimants.
Cantor, ( Latin: "singer", ) also spelled Kantor, also called Chanter, Hebrew Ḥazzan ("overseer"), also spelled Ḥazan, Chazzan, or Chazan, in Judaism and Christianity, an ecclesiastical official in charge of music or chants.
Blois was a subdean, an ecclesiastical official, of the diocese of Lincoln by 22 March 1194, probably from about 1189.
Though Princeton, a school founded by Presbyterians, no longer talks in ecclesiastical terms, officials there say Mr. LeMenager knows he made a mistake but still has a lot of talent.
Again, however, speaking on a personal level and by no means on any ecclesiastical or official level, I have to ask myself some questions.
The two chambers were: A senat of high ecclesiastical and secular officials, forming the royal council.
The rabbis were not ecclesiastical personages but communal officials, responsible for the governance of the entire range of life of what was understood to be the qehilla qedosha, the "holy community".
After she is captured, Joan, although having no theological training, holds her own often with a tart tongue against a daunting array of Church officials during her ecclesiastical trial.
It was probably Burnell who suggested a compromise in 1285 over the jurisdictions of the royal and ecclesiastical courts, which allowed royal officials to return cases involving only religious matters to the church courts.
