Sentence examples for ecclesiastical supremacy from inspiring English sources
John Calvin's assertion of ecclesiastical supremacy in Geneva was an exception of the day.
Once appointed archbishop, he became a militant defender of the church against royal encroachment and a champion of the papal ideology of ecclesiastical supremacy over the lay world.
The immediate issues between the two sees were matters of ecclesiastical supremacy, the liturgy, and clerical discipline; behind those sources of division lay the question of jurisdiction over the converts in Bulgaria.
14 Bispham, "Contest for Ecclesiastical Supremacy in Valley of the Mississippi," in Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 3, pp154‑189; "Fray Antonio de Sedilla,"º in Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 1, pp24‑37.
The southern Roman Catholic clergy were alienated by William's policy of state supremacy in ecclesiastical matters.
In short, he asserted papal supremacy in all matters ecclesiastical.
In his plenitude of power, the pope possesses an absolute supremacy both in the ecclesiastical and in the temporal sphere, and delegates the exercise of the temporal "sword" to lay sovereigns only in order to fulfill most properly his higher religious duties.
If he accepted lay authority in church government as exerted through the council, his personal influence averted both the subservient Erastianism (the supremacy of lay authority in ecclesiastical matters) of Lutheranism and exhausting conflict, as at Geneva.
De heretico comburendo was repealed by the Act of Supremacy 1558, although that act allowed ecclesiastical commissions to deal with occasional instances of heresy.
In ecclesiastical policies, he fought steadily against the setting aside of papal authority by a local church subjected to secular power; rare for his time and place, he upheld utter papal supremacy.
