Sentence examples for religious offices from inspiring English sources

Progress through the ranks typically involves an alternation between civil and religious offices.

It consists of a series of cargos, or civil and religious offices, in which most males of the village participate, the higher offices being achieved with age and experience.

A hundred years ago, the idea that one of Western Europe's most ancient religious offices could be occupied by a black man born in Africa would have seemed like something out of science fiction.

In the beginning, the patricians were supposed to have enjoyed a monopoly of power (the consulship, the Senate, and all religious offices), whereas the plebeians began with nothing except the right to vote in the assemblies.

In addition, inspectors have been removed from the cabinet-level Central Bank of Iraq, and from two religious offices, the Sunni Endowment and the Christian Endowment, whose leaders carry the rank of deputy minister.

It also showed a new aggressiveness — this was the time of the Crusades — and in consequence faced a vigorous reform movement, for the Church's grandeur was paid for, mostly, by simony, the sale of religious offices and indulgences.

Azmi bin Abdul Rejab, a marriage registration officer at the Islamic religious office in Kulim, a town in the northern state of Kedah, confirmed that the Shariah court there had given Nor Fazira permission to marry.

He was never elected to the purely religious office of imam that all his predecessors held.

Well, you wouldn't have a religious office in the White House if you did.

Who will take on Britain's second most important religious office?

All male members of the community enter the escalafón, a system of civil and religious office holding.