Sentence examples for ecclesiastical states from inspiring English sources
The Reformation rendered the ecclesiastical states anachronisms.
This region also included the four independent ecclesiastical states: the archbishopric of Riga and the bishoprics of Courland (Kurland; Latvian: Kurzeme), Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia), and Ösel-Wiek.
The conquered territory was organized into the Livonian confederation, which consisted of ecclesiastical states, free towns, and regions ruled directly by the knights.
In continental Europe he advanced beyond France's natural frontiers, incorporating Piedmont into France, imposing a more centralized government on the Swiss Confederation, and in Germany compensating the princes dispossessed of territory on the Rhine under the Treaty of Lunéville with shares of the secularized ecclesiastical states.
The second principle covered the special status of the ecclesiastical states, called the ecclesiastical reservation, or reservatum ecclesiasticum.
Three months later, he was ordained a priest in the Silesian Duchy of Neisse an area of successful re-Catholicisation and one of two ecclesiastical states within the region (that is, ruled by a Prince-Bishop).
The church, like the state, has been exposed to the temptation of power, which resulted in the transformation of the church into an ecclesiastical state.
The question of the pope's relation to the Italian state was unsettled until the Lateran Treaty of 1929 set up the independent ecclesiastical state of Vatican City.
This took place in the development of the Papal States and, to a lesser degree, in several theocratic churches, as well as in Calvin's ecclesiastical state in Geneva in the 16th century.
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.
These were being generated, I presume, to put the audience in an appropriately medieval (and ecclesiastical) state of mind, to help summon an age in which kingliness was next to godliness.
