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ecclesiastical

of or relating to the Christian Church

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For instance, it relies on permission from the ecclesiastical province to elect bishops and delegates to General Synod.

Taking three days to cover the distance, the team, which included riders from insurers Ecclesiastical, and Ansvar, and specialist brokers SEIB and Lycetts, raised money for seven charities: Winston's Wish, Age UK Gloucestershire, Little Havens Hospice (Essex), Motor Neurone Disease Association, Scope, Cystic Fibrosis Trust and Meningitis Now.

Cycling team raise cash on 337-mile ride

Earlier this week, the Panayia Trachonas Ecclesiastical Committee held a news conference to announce that Chrysostomos had taken some e1/4450,000 from its bank accounts despite their explicit refusal to consent.

'Archbishopic does not have a money-printing machine'

She sees the use of these terms as having their beginnings in a distinction made by Gelasius I in a letter to Emperor Anastasius in 494, referred to as the 'two swords theory', of difference between ecclesiastical and imperial power.

Chapman, Alice, Sacred Authority and Temporal Power in the Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux

The honorific "monsignor" is applied to priests who are granted by the pope certain ecclesiastical titles like "honorary prelate" or "apostolic pronotary.

Use of 'monsignor' honorific curtailed

BEIRUT: A Lebanese abbot who leads a monastery was barred from exercising ecclesiastical duties and sentenced to a life of solitary penitence, according to a statement released by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Byblos and Batroun over the weekend.

Monastery head barred from duties after Archdiocese verdict

The campaign has been launched by church insurer Ecclesiastical, which is investing pounds 500,000 of its own money to install roof alarms free of charge on the country's most badly-affected churches.

THEFTS FORCE CHURCHES TO ALARM ROOFS

Chelmsford Diocese in Essex topped the league of worst-hit places in the UK, according to Ecclesiastical, which received more than 90 claims for metal theft from churches in the area.

Churches report record number of metal theft claims in 2011

-AM Best upholds Ecclesiastical Insurance Office's A/a ratings

Schmidt's important study refutes the claim that the institution of public ecclesiastical penances ceased with the late Middle Ages.

Suhne oder Sanktion?: Die Offentlichen Kirchenbusse in den Furstbistumern Munster und Osnabruck Wahrend des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts

The new Patriarch added "no other ecclesiastical event had earned such serenity and happiness.