excommunicate

He did this by threatening to excommunicate from the Church those bishops who refused to comply with his wishes.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

After the service, journalists were asked to leave while members voted on a move of “church discipline” to excommunicate Long under the church’s bylaws.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2021

“They can’t excommunicate me because I am not going anywhere,” she says.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2020

In the same year, Napoleon annexed the Papal States in central Italy, prompting Pope Pius VII to excommunicate him.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Such a pair were once sent with bulls to excommunicate Barnabas Visconti, but Barnabas only made them eat their bulls—parchment, ribbons, leaden seals and all.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It now excommunicates anyone who practises polygamy but a number of fundamentalist Mormon offshoots continue to do so.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2020

Complying with the church commandments isn’t such a problem for many Amish inmates, because the church usually excommunicates members who commit crimes of violence or depravity before they enter prison.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2012

The mainstream Mormon church, which has no affiliation with the FLDS, abandoned polygamy in 1890 and excommunicates members engaged in the practice.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2012

Good Catholic wives glanced at the crucifix on the wall, tried not to think of excommunicates.

From Time Magazine Archive

Emperor Frederick I calls the Council of Pavia; it declares Victor to be pope; Alexander excommunicates them all.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The last time the Society ordained new bishops, in 1988, they were immediately excommunicated.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

They were immediately excommunicated, but the sanction was lifted in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

“I like to say I was excommunicated from the church of the medical establishment,” he said in the Substack video.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025

In 2009, for example, Pope Benedict diplomatically reconnected with a far-right group that had, in a great scandal in the ’80s, excommunicated itself by consecrating bishops outside the church’s approval.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2023

My father and I had been excommunicated from the Saunders family.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

AI isn’t going anywhere: It’s already an essential tool for the modern economy, and excommunicating it from the classroom would leave graduates unprepared for the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

Soon after, the patriarch issued his own letter excommunicating the pope’s representatives.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The Vatican has been considering developing a doctrine about excommunicating Catholic mobsters.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2021

Another commenter added, “Why are they excommunicating you over a 1-year-olds attendance? That baby will never remember your wedding day and likely would never care that he wasn’t invited.”

From Fox News ● May 15, 2019

In 1290 at Canterbury the Master had even the power of excommunicating his Scholars.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen