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

Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity...

Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical hierarchy, or ecclesiocracy may refer to: Theocracy, a form of religious State government Hierocracy (medieval)...

Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used...

October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as...

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations. In contrast, a vicar is also...

An ecclesiastical court, also called court Christian or court spiritual, is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious...

Ecclesiastical History may refer to: Church History (Eusebius) Ecclesiastical History (Zacharias Rhetor) Ecclesiastical History of the English People...

In the canon law of the Catholic Church, ecclesiastical privileges are the privileges enjoyed by the clergy. Their scope varied over time. The main privileges...

An ecclesiastical crime is a crime (delictum) related to the clergy where the crime is against canon law vis-à-vis civil law. The crime of simony is the...

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

measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization...

word thus retains two senses today, one architectural and the other ecclesiastical. A cathedral is a church, usually Catholic, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox...

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...

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...

Ecclesiastical heraldry refers to the use of heraldry within Christianity for dioceses, organisations and Christian clergy. Initially used to mark documents...

The religious capital or ecclesiastical capital of a region is a place considered pre-eminent by the adherents of a particular religion within that region...

The ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal (Spanish: desamortización eclesiástica de Mendizábal), more often referred to simply as la Desamortización...

The Catholic Church in Germany comprises 7 ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 20 dioceses...