Sentence examples for ecclesiastical orders from inspiring English sources

He became first secretary of state, probably before 855, and in 858 he was promoted through all the ecclesiastical orders to be made patriarch of Constantinople on Christmas Day, replacing the austere Ignatius, who had fallen out with Bardas.

If the old order was weakened, it was not merely a secular order that lost but an ecclesiastical order as well.

Knox helped write the new confession of faith and the ecclesiastical order for the newly created reformed church, the Kirk.

As the petition was addressed to the secular authorities, the bishop responded at the same level by notifying the Zurich government to maintain the ecclesiastical order.

Church rules against drinking entertainments are found in The Synod of Laodicea (363): Rule XXIV: "No one of the priesthood, from presbyters to deacons, and so on in the ecclesiastical order to subdeacons, readers, singers, exorcists, door-keepers, or any of the class of the Ascetics, ought to enter a tavern".

According to Simon Keynes: In this period, a diploma can be characterised as a formal and symbolic record, in Latin, of an occasion when the king, acting in a royal assembly, and with the consent of the ecclesiastical and secular orders, created an estate of "bookland" at a specified place, and conveyed it on the privileged terms defined by the "book", or diploma, to a named beneficiary.

Stahl's position implied a derogation of the spirituality of the state, presenting it as an agency of external constraint, to uphold the orthodox ecclesiastical and political order against the flow of history, and to defend a social order governed by irrational privileges and immunities.

A leading role devolved upon the bishop of Rome in questions of discipline, doctrine, and ecclesiastical and worship order.

In addition, it was his habit to systematically intervene in the affairs of local churches, disposing of ecclesiastical posts in order to settle disputes, to help university students, to reward devout persons, or to help needy clergy.

The primary emphasis was on criminal law rather than on private law, although certain material dealt with problems of public administration, public order, and ecclesiastical matters.

During Andrew's reign the Teutonic Knights, who had occupied parts of Transylvania for 14 years, came into conflict with both royal and ecclesiastical authority, and the order was expelled from Hungary in 1225.