| Sensitive to the alleged and often real rebuffs of friends, but also to the demands of ecclesiastical authority, he was often at its mercy. |
| The ecclesiastical fission has led to some tiny island villages being split religiously among as many as five different bodies. |
| There are three dimensions of ecclesiastical medievalism that are still part and parcel of the church today. |
| Gold and silver was also beaten and drawn out to be used to make thread for embroidery and braid weaving, often of an ecclesiastical in nature. |
| In ecclesiastical affairs, the see of Canterbury claimed a comparable hegemony. |
| Thus papal absolutism and Spanish absolutism, secular and ecclesiastical power, grew ever more complementary and interdependent. |
