| A major problem is the lack of priests and other ecclesiastics, whose numbers declined drastically during the Soviet period. |
| The secular churches were prominent patrons, as were the leading individual laymen and ecclesiastics. |
| Frequently visited by princes and high ecclesiastics, the monastery soon became famous. |
| Some of the authors are academics, some ecclesiastics, and some practitioners such as psychologists. |
| Tombs of ecclesiastics were made deliberately shrinelike, with relief carving or a pinnacled canopy. |
| He was an apposite successor to Brinton in a see too modest to attract the interest of ambitious ecclesiastics. |
