Sentence examples for ecclesiastical system from inspiring English sources

It reorganized its ecclesiastical system during a convention of bishops, clergy, and laity held in 1870.

Lycaonia, visited by St . Paul was Christianized early, and by the 4th century it possessed a more completely organized ecclesiastical system than any other region of Anatolia.

Like others in the movement, he consistently opposed preferment (the ecclesiastical system of promotions) and is known to have refused at least two bishoprics.

But, then, you also insist that they conform to a centuries-old ecclesiastical system that may conflict with equally venerable ideas that they inherited from their families or social standing in the world.

By origin it was an entirely ecclesiastical system, but it became the main geography for a variety of statistical reporting, partly because the main local sources for many government inquiries were the parish priests of the Church of England.

In 1520, Luther made Erasmus' life at Louvain even more difficult by publishing three brilliant but radical tracts that repudiated the whole medieval ecclesiastical system.

He did not cry with Voltaire, "Écrasez l'Infâme!" ("Crush the Infamy!") because in his England and Switzerland he saw no danger in the ecclesiastical systems.

If they had not already done so, secular courts quickly adopted the procedures of the ecclesiastical court system (except in England).

The Church acknowledges that overboarding took place but characterises it as part of its "ecclesiastical justice" system for dealing with poor performance.

Firmian completed the earlier reforms in political administration, in the judicial system, in ecclesiastical relations, and in educational policy.

The defectors also alleged that there was a system of "ecclesiastical justice" that included publicly confessing sins and crimes to a group of peers, and being ordered to jump into a pool fully clothed.