• Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical hierarchy, or ecclesiocracy may refer to: Theocracy, a form of religious State government Hierocracy (medieval)...
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    Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity...
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    the magister militum Comitiolus, whom he accused of interfering in ecclesiastical affairs. He implicitly accused Licinianus of Cartagena of ordaining...
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    A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government...
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  • Canon law (redirect from Ecclesiastical law)
    set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its...
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    concludes Maltese elites included archontes, bishops and members of the ecclesiastical communities. The islands' commercial vitality, reflecting their strategic...
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  • - From the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Danske Regeringsledere - Danish cabinets from 1848 to today. Danish Governments - From Folketinget. The...
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  • Vestry (category Church of England ecclesiastical polity)
    A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally...
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  • conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the 'prime minister', 'premier',...
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    word thus retains two senses today, one architectural and the other ecclesiastical. A cathedral is a church, usually Catholic, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox...
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    of Roman Liberty – Statues of Rome – Final Settlement of the Ecclesiastical Government Prospect of the Ruins of Rome in the Fifteenth Century – Four...
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    Isles of Scilly (category Local government districts in Cornwall)
    OCLC 561729732. Woodley, George (1822). "Of the Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical Government of the Scilly Islands". A View of the Present State of the Scilly...
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  • Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its...
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    Ecclesiastical heraldry refers to the use of heraldry within Christianity for dioceses, organisations and Christian clergy. Initially used to mark documents...
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  • resignation of the government, it existed de jure until a new cabinet was formed on 5 May 1945. Tidligere kirkeministre. Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs of...
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    Tacloban. The municipality is also home to the offices of the ecclesiastical government of the Archdiocese of Palo; the archbishop's residence; as well...
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    About this time, Hooker began to write his major work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a critique of the Puritans and their attacks on the Church of...
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  • the status quo ante, Romagna returning to the papacy and its ecclesiastical government, the duchy of Parma being given to Marie Louise, wife of the deposed...
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    Corregidores. Choose one of the list of candidates proposed by the Ecclesiastical Government for priests and vicars of the provinces. Suspend up to three months...
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  • Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders...
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    supremacy of the bishop of Rome. Hilarius continued to strengthen ecclesiastical government in Gaul and Spain. In Rome, Hilarius worked zealously to counter...
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  • appeals were to be addressed to himself; the centralization of ecclesiastical government in Rome naturally involved a curtailment of the powers of bishops...
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  • recognized creed and form of worship; A definite and distinct ecclesiastical government; A formal code of doctrine and discipline; A distinct religious...
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  • systems between government to citizen (G2C), government-to-business (G2B), government-to-government (G2G), government-to-employees (G2E) as well as back-office...
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  • Congregational polity (category Ecclesiastical polities)
    congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church (congregation) is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous"...
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    The ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal (Spanish: desamortización eclesiástica de Mendizábal), more often referred to simply as la Desamortización...
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    Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically...
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  • English and Welsh law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution, often a charitable institution set up for...
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    An ecclesiastical decoration is an order or a decoration conferred by a head of a church. Jerusalem Pilgrim's Cross, established in 1901, conferred in...
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  • Pope Pius VII gave it competence for negotiations with all governments about ecclesiastical matters and renamed it the Congregatio extraordinaria praeposita...
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