How to Use ecclesiastical in a Sentence

ecclesiastical

adjective

• But those who visit San Jose also have the chance to take in some ecclesiastical grandeur.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Because the actual date of the spring equinox can differ by a day or two, the Catholic Church created a fixed date of March 21 to define it, known as the ecclesiastical equinox.
  — Carlie Procell, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• Because the actual date of the spring equinox can differ by a day or two, the Catholic Church created a fixed date of March 21 to define it, known as the ecclesiastical equinox.
  — Carlie Procell, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2023
• The church also states that at least one of the prospective newlyweds must be a member in the leader’s ecclesiastical unit.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 June 2021
• Reuters reports that the priest, who was dressed in black ecclesiastical vestments and a silver pectoral cross, shouted loudly enough for the pope to hear him.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 4 Dec. 2021
• Dickens was set to be buried in Rochester Cathedral, at the direction of the Dean and Chapter (the ecclesiastical governing body).
  — Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• But the ecclesiastical debate has also served as a proxy for battles over politics, power and the future of the Catholic Church.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• Hollas is believed to be the first person in the country to be given a national ecclesiastical role of this kind.
  — Adeel Hassan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
• When the last of the Anglican ecclesiastical refugees dies, if no change has been made in the meantime, the Catholic priesthood of the Western or Latin rite will go back to being entirely celibate.
  — Erasmus, The Economist, 18 June 2019
• The church argued that Miday should have dismissed it based on the ecclesiastical doctrine.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
• Have jokes been told about me by my teachers, or my bosses, or my ecclesiastical leaders?
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
• In May 2011, the man filed a complaint with Peru’s ecclesiastical court that was forwarded to the Vatican.
  — Marcelo RochabrÚn and Andrea Zarate, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• Carey's airy vocal runs throughout the track keep it exciting, while the backing choir cements the song's ecclesiastical core.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2020
• Each wears a badge: the hart that is the king’s personal symbol—hardly an ecclesiastical motif.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• Long, ecclesiastical sleeves draped over my hands, signaling virtue, pageantry, and a sense of occasion.
  — Vogue, 4 Apr. 2022
• The nuns sued the diocese over invasion of privacy in May 2023, but the suit was dismissed in June after a judge ruled that the courts did not have jurisdiction over ecclesiastical matters.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2024
• Like in a baroque painting, each was frozen in an expression of ecclesiastical grief, faces contorted, while the receiver to the red line lay in Hendrickson’s limp, upturned palm.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• Barely seven feet high, the door opens into a small, shaded vestibule that ends in another door, this one leading to a bright, sunlit courtyard hemmed in by ecclesiastical walls.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• That sign is a particular version of an ecclesiastical hat that was worn in processions as late as 1870.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 11 July 2017
• Liberatore embarked on a program to revive the study of St. Thomas Aquinas and wrote many books and papers on ecclesiastical and social matters.
  — Alejandro Chafuen, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• Scarves with frontal fastenings seemed to be the brand's take on ecclesiastical headwear, while black patent statement boots that sported a chunky sole were a hip way of managing Russia's famed winter snow.
  — Thomas Adamson, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• The changes deal specifically with church penal sanctions; other parts of canon law — the church’s vast set of ecclesiastical rules — remain unchanged.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• Sanction was first used in a religious context, to mean a law or ecclesiastical decree.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2022
• For those not versed in Catholic vocabulary, a diocese is an ecclesiastical district within the Catholic Church.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
• They are set to a haunting chord progression with echoes of Bach, rendered in ecclesiastical fashion by Fisher’s organ, and sung by Brooker in a raspy voice, soaked with longing and regret.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• In the 16th century rulers across Europe introduced new laws to make sorcery punishable by death—and the trials moved from ecclesiastical to secular courts, such as in duchies and towns.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• The Church has a 24-hour abuse help line to help leaders understand and meet both their professional and ecclesiastical obligations to report abuse.
  — oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2020
• At the center of a wide lawn sits Gracanica Monastery, a masterpiece of late-Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture, its rosy domes like steppingstones that draw the eye and the spirit toward the sky.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2016
• Against them, Hobbes claimed that if Christ’s kingdom is not of this world, then ecclesiastical rulers have no sovereignty or coercive power, all of which resides in the secular sovereign.
  — Nathaniel Peters, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• During the Revolution, about 20 of the Mays were dispersed when all ecclesiastical property was seized.
  — Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024