Sentence examples for state and ecclesiastical from inspiring English sources

Property disputes arose over who owned the mission (and adjacent) lands, between the Spanish crown, the Catholic Church, the Natives and the Spanish settlers of San Jose: There were "heated debates" between "the Spanish State and ecclesiastical bureaucracies" over the government authority of the missions.

Strong mutual relationships, furthermore, were developed between religion and the state, and an ecclesiastical organization was set up in which every local district of any importance had its own mobed ("priest"; originally magupat, "chief priest").

The treaties of Lunéville (1801) and Amiens (1802) and the Mediatization of 1803 transferred large portions of the Holy Roman Empire to the dynastic states and secularized ecclesiastical territories.

These were being generated, I presume, to put the audience in an appropriately medieval (and ecclesiastical) state of mind, to help summon an age in which kingliness was next to godliness.

The resolution of the controversy left the emperor in a weakened state and increased the influence of the secular and ecclesiastical princes.

As emperor Alexis I Comnenus was negotiating with Pope Urban II the possibility of Western help against the Turks, Nicholas was consulted about the state of ecclesiastical relations between Rome and Constantinople.

It ought to be on every coat of arms, secular and ecclesiastical, throughout the land.

During the conflict, Hawkwood was paid 130,000 florins which was extracted from local clergy, bishops, abbots, monasteries, and ecclesiastical institutions to confine his activities to suppressing the rebellions in the Papal States, rather than directly attacking Florence.

Both national and ecclesiastical independence were lost.

The city was (and remains) a commercial and ecclesiastical centre.

Civic and ecclesiastical bigwigs vied for pride of place.