Sentence examples for ecclesiastical status from inspiring English sources

The Book of Llandaff, compiled under Bishop Urban, was a record of privileges and grants made to the see in recognition of its ecclesiastical status.

He spent lavish sums on the church and sought to enhance the ecclesiastical status of his court, though his efforts involved him in a lengthy dispute with the papacy.

It allowed clergy that were readmitted to communion after making common cause with Arians to return to their former ecclesiastical status, provided they had not themselves subscribed to Arianism.

In winter the cassock was often lined with furs varying in costliness with the rank of the wearer, and its colour also varied in the Middle Ages with ecclesiastical or academic status.

The pope still officially carries the title "King of the Ecclesiastical State" (in Latin: Rex Status Ecclesiæ).

Initially a diocese, Homs was given the status of ecclesiastical metropolis after the discovery of John the Baptist's head in a nearby area in 452.

The second principle covered the special status of the ecclesiastical states, called the ecclesiastical reservation, or reservatum ecclesiasticum.

It was at all times an ecclesiastical parish and acquired civil parish status in the 1890s.

Würzburg's Romanesque cathedral, begun in 1034, consecrated in 1189, and restored after World War II, recalls the city's former status as the capital of an ecclesiastical principality.

Although he was never convicted of the murder in either a secular or an ecclesiastical court, he was stripped of his clerical status and became a layman before 1158.

The kings further bolstered their status by adopting Christian ceremonies and nomenclature, introducing ecclesiastical coronations during the 8th century and terming themselves "Christ's deputy" by the 11th century.