Sentence examples for with the convocation from inspiring English sources

Hooker, indeed, insisted that "the prince has a delegated power, from the Parliament of England, together with the convocation (of clergy) annexed thereto…whereupon the very essence of all government doth depend".

In 1571 the Convocation of Canterbury, one of the church's two primary legislative bodies (along with the Convocation of York), defined standard doctrine in the Thirty-nine Articles, but attempts to reform the prayer book further and to produce a reformed discipline failed.

The King appealed to the nations of Western Europe for help and tarried with the convocation of the Sejm.

The adoption of the Constitution was preceded by a period of agitation forand gradual introduction ofreforms beginning with the Convocation Sejm of 1764 and the election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the Commonwealth's last king.

Charles, at the instigation of a rival cardinal of the influential della Rovere family, threatened the pope with deposition and the convocation of a reform council.

The convocation with the president and deans, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was moved overnight, to Monday.

President Charles M. Vest opened the convocation with his traditional welcome, tweaked to apply to the class of 2002.

A pro-imperial cardinal, Napoleone Orsini, began secret negotiations with the Emperor for the convocation of an ecumenical council to judge John.

The breakaway group aligned itself with the conservative Convocation of Anglicans in Virginia but continued to worship in the building.

Teaching award recipients were honored in connection with the spring Convocation on June 15.

In the spring of 1640 Parliament met for the first time in 11 years and with it the clerical assembly, the Convocation, which laid down in a new set of canons the principles of the Laudian church.