Catholic Church, ecclesiastical privileges are the privileges enjoyed by the clergy. Their scope varied over time. The main privileges are: Privilegium...

Ecclesiastical privilege may refer to: One of the Ecclesiastical Privileges of the Canon law of the Catholic Church Priest–penitent privilege Ecclesiastical...

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is jurisdiction by church leaders over other church leaders and over the laity. Jurisdiction is a word borrowed from the legal...

servant"); the religion itself asserts what is sometimes termed "ecclesiastical privilege" only for its appointed elders. A tariqah is how a religious order...

pastor–penitent privilege, clergyman–communicant privilege, or ecclesiastical privilege, is a rule of evidence that forbids judicial inquiry into certain...

composed of 16 articles and represented an attempt to restrict ecclesiastical privileges and to curb the power of the Church courts and the extent of papal...

Cathedral (1762). The ordained clergy (but not religious sisters) had ecclesiastical privileges (fueros), which meant that they were exempt from civil courts...

elevated to the cardinalate from 1901 to 1912.[citation needed] Ecclesiastical privileges were granted to the order almost from its beginning. Alexander...

as with any other subjects of the crown. The crown eliminated ecclesiastical privileges (fuero eclesiástico) that had given only canonical courts jurisdiction...

with the Holy See. The resulting structure of royal power and ecclesiastical privileges, was formative in the Spanish Empire. It resulted in a characteristic...

Le privilège du blanc (pronounced [lə pʁivilɛʒ dy blɑ̃]; "the privilege of the white") is a custom of the Catholic Church that permits certain designated...

oblatus) was accounted a persona ecclesiastica, with enjoyment of ecclesiastical privileges and immunity (Benedict XIV, "De Synodo Dioce.", VI). During a...

was a statement of ecclesiastical censure against heresies, schisms, sacrilege, infringement of papal and ecclesiastical privileges, attacks on person...

a court martial, a cleric by an ecclesiastical court. Privilegium fori used to be one of the ecclesiastical privileges in the canon law of the Catholic...

An Ecclesiastial award is an official award, honor or privilege presented by ecclesiastical authority. In the Eastern Orthodox Church certain official...

from the ecclesiastical Latin Clericus, for those belonging to the priestly class. In turn, the source of the Latin word is from the Ecclesiastical Greek...

establish the separation of church and state, the abolition of ecclesiastical privileges (fueros); and the secularization of registration of births, deaths...

An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity...

In organized Christianity, an ecclesiastical court, also called court Christian or court spiritual, is any of certain non-adversarial courts conducted...

enlarged privileges for the Swedish church and Valerius, the Archbishop of Uppsala. The privilege document of 1200 is the oldest known ecclesiastical privilege...

default ecclesiastical court for appeals from decisions of the tribunals of the suffragan bishops. The metropolitan also has the liturgical privilege of celebrating...

active adherents. For example, only elders assert ecclesiastical privilege and confessional privilege. Only males may be appointed as elders and ministerial...

apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative...

in government and court ceremony and an aggressive advocate of ecclesiastical privilege, Hincmar took an active part in all the great political and religious...

Spiritual Lords had attempted to secure the privileges of the Peerage while maintaining their ecclesiastical privileges, but lost in both attempts. Nonetheless...

An ordinance or ecclesiastical ordinance is a type of law, legal instrument, or by-law in the canon law of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion...

and mainly concern the administration of ecclesiastical land and the preservation of ecclesiastical privileges. Most of the material originated in the...

championing of the interests of the poor, or because of his defence of ecclesiastical privileges. Such interpretations assume that 'vnlawfull' was a hostile interpolation...

elder or deacon ("ministerial servant"). The religion asserts ecclesiastical privilege only for its appointed elders, but the religion permits any baptized...

An ecclesiastical ring is a finger ring worn by clergy, such as a bishop's ring. In Western Christianity, rings are worn by bishops of the Roman Catholic...