ecclesiastical

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Yet despite the local ecclesiastical authorities approving the scene, the installation in central Brussels has come under fire online since opening on Friday, with right-wing Belgian politician Georges-Louis Bouchez even comparing the figures to "zombies".

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

After the war, Faÿ was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor, but he escaped from prison in 1951 dressed in ecclesiastical costume, with the help of—here one reaches for the phrase “incredible but true”—Toklas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

“BYU is a part of the Church and is a university that stands to help promote the Church’s ecclesiastical mission. I think that’s a form of messaging through one of its institutions.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

He is one of three ecclesiastical staff allowed to stay in the Sistine Chapel despite not being a cardinal elector, even though they will have to leave the premises during the counting of the votes.

From BBC • May 6, 2025

Which isn't really surprising, I suppose; this was also the age of ecclesiastical mazes - which may have served as metaphors for pilgrimages to Jerusalem - such as those at Chartres and Lucca Cathedrals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall