Sentence examples for ecclesiastical policy from inspiring English sources

His ecclesiastical policy strove to minimize the influence of the Roman Catholic church among Russian and Polish bishops.

Through an independent ecclesiastical policy, moreover, Philotheus consolidated the Orthodox Serbs, Bulgarians, and Russians with the Greek patriarchate.

His ecclesiastical policy was conditioned by his determination to complete the subordination of the church to the crown.

The following year the use of icons was restored but with a conciliatory ecclesiastical policy toward the Iconoclasts.

Many of us priests would welcome more open communication and participation in ecclesiastical policy formation, local and Vatican-initiated.

When many Scots signed a national covenant to defend their Presbyterian religion, the king decided to enforce his ecclesiastical policy with the sword.

Styling himself prince of Wales, he established an independent Welsh Parliament and began to formulate his own foreign and ecclesiastical policies.

Probably the least successful of Justinian's ecclesiastical policies were those adopted in an attempt to reconcile non-Chalcedonian and Chalcedonian Christians.

After the condemnation in 554 by Pope Vigilius of the Three Chapters (heretical writings based on the emperor Justinian's ecclesiastical policies), Aquileia seceded from Rome, its bishop Macedonius adopting the title of patriarch in defiance of the Pope.

In ecclesiastical policies, he fought steadily against the setting aside of papal authority by a local church subjected to secular power; rare for his time and place, he upheld utter papal supremacy.

The temporal scope of this study falls naturally between 1100, when the budding of the new culture and economy and the accompanying religious awareness were first becoming visible, and 1311, when ecclesiastical policies adopted at the Council of Vienne created a completely new framework.