Sentence examples for ecclesiastical seats from inspiring English sources

From 325 to 337, when the emperor Constantine died, those church leaders who had supported Arius and had been exiled after the Council of Nicaea attempted to return to their churches and sees (ecclesiastical seats) and to banish their enemies.

Tobolsk, at the junction of the Irtysh and Tobol Rivers, was at the time the administrative capital and ecclesiastical seat of western Siberia.

Vatican City, in full State of the Vatican City, Italian Stato della Città del Vaticano, ecclesiastical state, seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and an enclave in Rome, situated on the west bank of the Tiber River.

The jury had larger front seats and the ecclesiastical dignitaries small stone thrones, on which their titles can still be read.

The Reformation rendered the ecclesiastical states anachronisms.

The transfer of the capital also occasioned a dispute between Rome ("Old Rome") and Constantinople ("New Rome") over whether the new capital should be entitled to a commensurate ecclesiastical preeminence alongside the see (seat of a bishop's office) of Peter.

Its archbishops were acknowledged as princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1278, and the city became the seat of their powerful ecclesiastical principality.

One was that it was the final step of an ambitious ecclesiastical figure who had coveted the seat of St Peter for many a year of his clerical life.

The old city (Panamá Viejo) was founded in 1519 by Gov. Pedro Arias Dávila and was made the seat of both secular and ecclesiastical authority.

The work occupies a prominent place in Scottish ecclesiastical history.

During the 7th century Deira fell under the domination of the kingdom of Northumbria, and the town of York became the seat of an archbishop and the ecclesiastical centre of the north.