Sentence examples for form of ecclesiastical from inspiring English sources

Church watchers wondered whether his appointment to a relatively minor diocese was a form of ecclesiastical exile or the first step to bigger things.

Excommunication, form of ecclesiastical censure by which a person is excluded from the communion of believers, the rites or sacraments of a church, and the rights of church membership, but not necessarily from membership in the church as such.

The Low Church tradition of the Anglican Communion views the episcopal office as a form of ecclesiastical polity that has been tested through the centuries and is therefore commendable for pragmatic reasons.

Since the days of the peripatetic John Paul II, papal handlers have perfected a form of ecclesiastical spin — shrewdly defining and massaging the messages, the sound bites and the images that will dominate the headlines surrounding each day of the voyage.

All forms of ecclesiastical, political, and social communities of Christianity are founded on this basic idea of the fellowship of believers as the body of Christ.

All four parishes have made it clear to Peter Lee that they would not welcome his presence, and their rectors are exploring alternative forms of ecclesiastical oversight -- an arrangement some see as a step toward creating a new orthodox body that would be independent of Episcopal Church U.S.A., while remaining within the worldwide Anglican communion.

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

It leaves the Catholic world at a kind of ecclesiastical hiatus between two worlds.

Many colourful pub names (e.g., Bag o'Nails, Goat and Compass, and Elephant and Castle) are actually corrupted forms of historical, ecclesiastical, or other proper phrases and titles (e.g., "Bacchanals," "Great God Encompassing," and "Infanta de Castile," respectively).

While these collections did not form a closed body of ecclesiastical law prohibiting any new laws from being added, no new official collections of church law were promulgated between the Clementinae and the Council of Trent (1545 63).

Given the shameful legacy of church supported black oppression (in the form of racist theologies and ecclesiastical apartheid) I contend that the most vocal contemporary advocates of reparations should be Christians.