Sentence examples for local ecclesiastical from inspiring English sources

They channel information between the local ecclesiastical hierarchy and the Holy See.

However, I later learned that, for all his fellow-countrymen's broadmindedness, Niemeyer has had occasional tussles with the local ecclesiastical authorities; a cathedral he built in São Paulo waited years for consecration because the clergy felt that it was outré.

But before long she found herself playing rock 'n' roll records in her room and scouring local ecclesiastical shops for black nun's stockings, the better to hobnob with beatniks at the local bars and coffeehouses.

Virtually independent, sanctioned and constantly supported by the papacy, and exempt from local ecclesiastical jurisdiction, they aroused the jealousy of the clergy and constituted a serious challenge to royal authority.

Columban, however, by his individualism and austere puritanism, came into conflict not only with the Merovingian rulers of Gaul but also with the local ecclesiastical administration; his limitations exemplify those of the Irish monastic system as a whole and explain why, in the end, it was supplanted by the ordinary administrative system of the church.

The members of Svarog Battalion also believe that they have been undermined by the local ecclesiastical authority.

The greatest painter of the Spanish Counter-Reformation, El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos, from Crete), made his home in Toledo, where the local aristocratic and ecclesiastical society (but not Philip II) seems to have fully appreciated his genius.

Although the early diocese suffered from prolonged vacancies, as only two bishops are recorded to have occupied the see before the turn of the mid thirteenth century, over time it became firmly established in the region, allowing the meic Somairle to retain local control of ecclesiastical power and prestige.

In addition, it was his habit to systematically intervene in the affairs of local churches, disposing of ecclesiastical posts in order to settle disputes, to help university students, to reward devout persons, or to help needy clergy.

The dominance of local military aristocracies in ecclesiastical politics appeared most clearly in the civil wars in Rome in the late 760s, the first period of effective papal independence and one in which rival families fought it out for the papal office.

Many of us priests would welcome more open communication and participation in ecclesiastical policy formation, local and Vatican-initiated.