Sentence examples for ecclesiastical position from inspiring English sources

Excommunicated Catholics cannot participate in the sacraments or public ceremonies or hold any ecclesiastical position.

The appointment of Edward M. Egan as the ninth Roman Catholic archbishop of New York represents more than just the filling of an ecclesiastical position; for the future of the city, it could be the political event of the year.

When William recovered, however, he demanded from the new archbishop a sum of money, which Anselm refused to pay lest it look like simony (payment for an ecclesiastical position).

His paternal grandfather had published books defending Protestantism and had achieved the ecclesiastical position of superintendent; his maternal grandfather was a country parson; his father, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, was appointed pastor at Röcken by order of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, after whom Friedrich Nietzsche was named.

Ordained about 1661, Ken held several ecclesiastical positions until 1669, when he became a prebendary of Winchester Cathedral.

Besides his position in the household, he also held a number of ecclesiastical positions, which earned him a substantial income.

A relative of Thurstan, the Archbishop of York, Osbert probably owed his ecclesiastical positions to this relative.

The most successful of these moved on to occupy the major ecclesiastical positions in the realm as bishops and, towards the end of the period, archbishops.

From this, laws were enacted in 1426 to restrict the actions of prelates whether it was to regulate their need to travel to the Roman Curia or their ability to purchase additional ecclesiastical positions while there.

Most of the active members of the council for most of the period were career administrators and lawyers, almost exclusively university-educated clergy, the most successful of which moved on to occupy the major ecclesiastical positions in the realm as bishops and, towards the end of the period, archbishops.

But Rue's ecclesiastical side wasn't completely satiated.