ecclesiastical

• The breach with the Roman Church, the repudiation of papal influence in English ecclesiastical affairs, was not a spontaneous clerical (p. 268) movement; it was the effect of the subjection of the Church to the national temporal power. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri VIII - A.F. Pollard
• Our missions are apt to be rather over-ecclesiastical, aren't they? —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• Although this Cathedral was built in the XVII century, a date perilously near that of decadence in French ecclesiastical architecture, it was situated in so obscure a corner of Provence that its plan was unaffected by innovating ideas; it is of the old native type, a building of stout walls and heavy buttresses, a single tower, square and straight, and a tunnel-vaulted room, the place of congregation. —  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
• The breach with the Roman Church, the repudiation of papal influence in English ecclesiastical affairs, was not a spontaneous clerical movement; it was the effect of the p. 268) subjection of the Church to the national temporal power. —  Henry VIII.
• Here then the agreement of the Old Testament with the Testament of Christ is described as the ecclesiastical canon. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)

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