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).
The Cologne War (1583 88) devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day North-Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
Maurist, member of a congregation of French Benedictine monks founded in 1618 and devoted to strict observance of the Benedictine Rule and especially to historical and ecclesiastical scholarship.
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson describes the conflict between the LCWR and the Vatican as a tension with historical, sociological, and ecclesiastical roots.
Yet the story of the Tintoretto painting is intriguing and involves several figures of ecclesiastical and historical prominence.
Lastly, we find in Religion and the Conflict of the Faculties an array of new technical distinctions, including "saving faith," "servile faith," and, most importantly, "ecclesiastical faith" and "historical faith".
This cooperation as well as the course of their own historical development from spontaneous movements to ecclesiastical institutions possessing many of the features that the founders of the Free churches had originally found objectionable in the establishment has made the question of their future role in Christendom a central concern of Free churches on both sides of the Atlantic.
So, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. are referred to as "historical faiths" and their doctrines are objects of "historical faith" or "ecclesiastical faith".
Among many sites of historical and architectural interest are the medieval archbishop's palace and other ecclesiastical foundations and several Georgian buildings.
Sharpe studied and wrote about ecclesiastical architecture throughout his adult life, both sketching and measuring historical churches and ruins.
Clare Pardy, the underwriting manager for fine art at Ecclesiastical Insurance, a British firm that specializes in insuring art and historical buildings, explained that economic progress in Russia and China had increased the wherewithal to buy art faster than the knowledge about the field, creating a breeding ground for forgers and fraudsters.
