A decade-long influx of foreign tourists visiting Harlem churches has swelled considerably over the last year, to the point where Harlem on a Sunday morning has been transformed into something of an ecclesiastical theme park.
Cardinal Bevilacqua loved to visit parishes, and would sometimes playfully throw his ecclesiastical cap into a crowd.
Thereafter Encina lived much in Italy; he visited Rome at least three times, gaining various ecclesiastical posts and seeking the patronage of Pope Alexander VI, a Spaniard, in securing a position in Spain.
In 1845, Archimandrite Porphyrius Uspensky (1804 1885), at that time head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem and subsequently Bishop of Chigirin, visited the monastery and the codex was shown to him, together with leaves which Tischendorf had not seen.
Lycaonia, visited by St . Paul was Christianized early, and by the 4th century it possessed a more completely organized ecclesiastical system than any other region of Anatolia.
Civil corporations are visited by the government itself, through the medium of the courts of justice; but the internal affairs of ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations are, in general, inspected and controlled by a private visitor...
He then visited the court of Henry II, by whom he was given the abbey of Brantôme, but, although he also held several other benefices, his contact with religious life was limited to the enjoyment of ecclesiastical revenues.
The canon law was set down especially in the Capitularia ecclesiastica ("Ecclesiastical Articles") of the prince, as well as in the Capitularia missionum ("Mission Articles"; i.e., instructions given by the prince to the bishops and abbots who visited in his name).
They hold a mirror to the societies he visits, coaxing rare debate about spiritual matters in distinctly secular lands; they offer the body language, the tantalizing hints, the sideways glances that give tangible expression to theological nuance; they provide the scripted symbols, the ecclesiastical theater, that the Vatican presents as the choreography of faith.
