Sentence examples for ecclesiastical powers from inspiring English sources
The response of the ecclesiastical powers that be, once outright denial became untenable, has all along been an unsatisfactory mixture of contrition and irritation.
Sixtus IV realized too late the enormous ecclesiastical powers that he had given away and the moral dangers inherent in an institution the proceedings of which were secret and that did not allow appeals to Rome.
With its army of lay familiars, who were exempt from normal jurisdiction and who acted both as bodyguards and as informers for the inquisitors, and with its combination of civil and ecclesiastical powers, the Spanish Inquisition became a formidable weapon in the armory of royal absolutism.
His theology of the Reformation advocated stripping the Catholic Church of its many powers, not only its ecclesiastical powers, but powers that are, by any modern definition, temporal.
In the eyes of the secular and ecclesiastical powers of the world, he was from nowhere -- and the poor people he represented were barely a blip on the global screen.
A distinction was drawn between the secular and ecclesiastical powers of the prelates, under which Henry gave up his right to invest his clergy, but retained the custom of requiring them to come and do homage for the temporalities, the landed properties they held in England.
Unlike Trollope, Thirkell is uninterested in money and politics and ecclesiastical power.
Machiavelli stood accused of having inspired Henry VIII to defy papal authority and seize ecclesiastical power for the crown.
Conflict between royal and ecclesiastical power was a possibility he never faced: under Charles I both could be exalted simultaneously.
Nor was it merely the unreformed monasteries and imperial bishoprics that lost; at times, communal authority emerged stronger than any ecclesiastical power in the region.
Remnants of this ecclesiastical power survived until 1891, when the episcopal burgh was incorporated with New Aberdeen to form the present city.
