Sentence examples for settlement of ecclesiastical from inspiring English sources

The individual polities of modern Orthodox churches (e.g., Greek or Russian) are distinguished according to the amount of state participation in the settlement of ecclesiastical questions.

The newcomers were mainly from the Scottish Lowlands, and the English at first so feared them as competitors that the charter granted to London companies in 1613 added the prefix "London" to the name of the historic ecclesiastical settlement of Derry in an attempt to solidify English holdings.

The London Times writes in praise of ecclesiastical eccentrics.

They also reflect an evolution of ecclesiastical structure.

But Anglicans do understand the enduring nature of ecclesiastical upheaval.

The provisions for "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS), divorced from the citizens' own judiciary, are nothing more than the creation of a modern analogue of the Plantagenet-era parallel system of ecclesiastical courts with the exclusive right to try miscreant clergy.

Within the Church, celibacy is a matter not of religious dogma but of ecclesiastical law.

When universities were first created in medieval times, they were mainly communities of ecclesiastical scholars.

Even that megalomaniac Henry VIII needed parliamentary legitimisation for his programme of ecclesiastical reorganisation.

So they could be about quite mundane issues of ecclesiastical organisation.

Equally rare cloth had been obtained from the supplier of ecclesiastical finery to the Vatican.