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11Ecclesiastical history (Catholicism) — Ecclesiastical history, for the Roman Catholic Church, is the history of the Roman Catholic Church as an institution, written from a particular perspective. There is a traditional approach to such historiography. The generally identified starting …
12Ecclesiastical jurisdiction — in its primary sense does not signify jurisdiction over ecclesiastics ( church leadership ), but jurisdiction exercised by church leaders over other leaders and over the laity. Jurisdiction is a word borrowed from the legal system which has… …
13Ecclesiastical Courts — Ecclesiastical Courts † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Courts I. JUDICIAL POWER IN THE CHURCH In instituting the Church as a perfect society, distinct from the civil power and entirely independent of it, Christ gave her… …
14Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction — Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction The right to guide and rule the Church of God. The subject is here treated under the following heads: I. General Concept and Classification of… …
15Ecclesiastical Censures — Ecclesiastical Censures † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Censures Medicinal and spiritual punishments imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious person, by which he is deprived, either wholly of in part …
16Ecclesiastical Judge — Ecclesiastical Judge † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Judge (JUDEX ECCLESIASTICUS) An ecclesiastical person who possesses ecclesiastical jurisdiction either in general or in the strict sense (see JURISDICTION) The official …
17Ecclesiastical Prisons — Ecclesiastical Prisons † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Prisons It is plain from many decrees in the Corpus Juris Canonici that the Church has claimed and exercised the right, belonging to a perfect and visible society, of… …
18Ecclesiastical Commissions — Ecclesiastical Commissions † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Commissions Ecclesiastical Commissions are bodies of ecclesiastics juridically established and to whom are committed certain specified functions or charges. They are …
19Ecclesiastical Residence — Ecclesiastical Residence † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Residence A remaining or abiding where one s duties lie or where one s occupation is properly carried on, as the presence of a bishop in his diocese, a rector or… …
20Ecclesiastical court — An ecclesiastical court (also called Court Christian or Court Spiritual ) is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious matters. In the Middle Ages in many areas of Europe these courts had much wider powers than… …
