Thus, Orléanais was the country around Orléans, the pagus Aurelianensis, and for ecclesiastical purposes formed the diocese of Orléans.
Some examples in the show were made by Stroganoff wives and daughters for ecclesiastical purposes in the 16th and 17th centuries; others were sewn in workshops established by the family.
Originally, a metropolitan was a bishop of the Christian Church who resided in the chief city, or metropolis, of a civil province of the Roman Empire and, for ecclesiastical purposes, administered a territorial area coextensive with a civil province.
Highly productive artistic practices and well-established workshops had developed in Mexico and other places in New Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries in order to meet the demand of paintings required for ecclesiastical purposes and domestic settings of these thriving and sophisticated societies.
Chadderton had no medieval church of its own, and until 1541, for ecclesiastical purposes, lay within the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham in the Diocese of Lichfield.
Thereafter Reculver's parish boundary, enclosing an area of about 2 square miles, remained the same for both ecclesiastical and civil purposes until 1934, and included the settlements of Hillborough, Bishopstone and Brook (now Brook Farm).
Constantine established the principle that emperors could not settle questions of doctrine on their own, but should summon instead general ecclesiastical councils for that purpose.
There is, we have it on ecclesiastical authority, "a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted".
When John showed no signs of submitting, Walter called an ecclesiastical council at Westminster for the purposes of excommunicating John unless he submitted.
To use the modern ecclesiastical vocabulary, they were "complementary".
