Sentence examples for ecclesiastical side from inspiring English sources

He said the patriarch has proposed a meeting between the church's synod and Mr. Ivanishvili's cabinet, to discuss "what we should do from our side — from the ecclesiastical side — and what they should do as state officials".

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

Up beyond the altar, the ecclesiastical and national flags hung motionlessly side by side, church and state aligned.

I am not calling for a kind of ecclesiastical dialogue in which each side expects the other to convert at some point.

These justifications typically place conservatives on the right - on the side of authoritarian political, ecclesiastical and familial mechanisms of social control.

If you buy the argument in James Madison's famous "Memorial and Remonstrance" (1785) that forcing a citizen to "contribute three pence" in taxes to a religious organisation will grease a slippery slope toward full ecclesiastical establishment and the decimation of religious freedom, you'll side with the ACLU.

The ultimate decision to defrock Mr. Grosboll rests with Tove Fergo, the minister for ecclesiastical affairs, who has so far sided with Ms. Rebel.

Moderators of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church are entitled to a black ecclesiastical hat with 10 blue tassels on each side, and moderators of synods and of presbyteries to a hat with six and three tassels, respectively, on each side.

Although a priest would rarely assume arms unless he had an ancestral right to arms independent of his clerical state, a priest would use a simple black ecclesiastical hat with a single tassel on each side.

In England in 1976 a system for deans, archdeacons and canons was authorized by the College of Arms, allowing a black ecclesiastical hat, black or violet cords, and three violet or red tassels on each side.

Conflicts between his ecclesiastical duties and his government duties made him the target of criticism from both sides.