The governing body of the abbey consists of the abbot, prior and the " convent " of Stiftsherren ( canons ).

During this time there he renovated the basilica, attached a body of regular canons and improved its revenue stream.

Following Zanelli's death, the canons of cathedral chapters ( of which Monsignor Sarto was one ) inherited the episcopal jurisdiction as corporate body, and were chiefly responsible for the election of a vicar-capitular who would take over the responsibilities of Treviso until a new bishop was named.

In addition, the science of superficial anatomy includes the theories and systems of body proportions and related artistic canons.

In addition there remained after the dissolution of the monasteries, over a hundred collegiate churches in England, whose endowments maintained regular choral worship though a corporate body of canons, prebends or priests.

He promised that the new foundation's canons would not be allowed to vote in archiepiscopal elections nor would the body of Saint Thomas Becket ever be moved to the new church, but the monks of his cathedral chapter were suspicious and appealed to the papacy.

The Speyer cathedral chapter ( Domkapitel, capitulum ) was an ecclesiastical corporate body of approximately 30 canons, or clergy ordained for religious duties in the church.

At his death he left behind a body of literature larger than that of his Renaissance contemporaries: in fact, his work rivals in size the canons of Spenser and Milton.

In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons ; a non-monastic, or " secular " community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by a dean or provost.

Thirty canons ( or judgements ) were passed, dealing with unction, the Permission of penance, the right of asylum ; recommending caution to bishops in the ordination of foreign clergy, the consecration of churches outside of their own jurisdictions, and other matters ; imposing limitations on the administration of ecclesiastical rites to those who were in any way defective, either in body or mind ; and emphasizing the duty of celibacy for those belonging to the clerical state, especially deacons and widows, with express reference to canon viii.

In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.

Even the Church and hereditary clergy had become highly hierarchical, and the holders of benefices, the canons and the monks were under scandalous aspersions and mutual repulsion.

Once there, they refused to recognise Gregory's position as head of the church of Constantinople, arguing that his transfer from the See of Sasima was canonically illegitimate because one of the canons of the Council of Nicaea had forbidden bishops to transfer from their sees.

One of the elderly canons who had supported Zwingli ’ s election, Konrad Hofmann, complained about his sermons in a letter.

So that dependence upon earlier schismatic parties in the Church, which he never mentions in his writings ( as though he had never derived anything from them ), is counterindicated, and attention is directed to the true sources in Scripture, to which he added the collections of canons of the Church.

Benjamin Z. Kedar argued that the canons of the Council of Nablus were in force in the 12th century but had fallen out of use by the thirteenth.

It was attended by 105 bishops ( chiefly from Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia, with a few from Africa and other quarters ), held five sessions or secretarii from 5 October to 31 October 649, and in twenty canons condemned Monothelitism, its authors, and the writings by which Monothelitism had been promulgated.

In his wider policy, which was characterised throughout by an effective stringency, the maintenance and increase of the efficacy of the Inquisition and the enforcement of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent had precedence over other considerations.

At this time, under the abbot Gilduin, Saint Victor was a thriving community and upon Gilduin ’ s death, the abbey had 44 dependant houses of canons.

In The World, William Archer wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of meaning, " What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle, whether of art or morals, creates its own canons and conventions, and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?

Ussher resisted this pressure at a convocation in 1634, ensuring that the English Articles of Religion were adopted as well as the Irish articles, not instead of them, and that the Irish canons had to be redrafted based on the English ones rather than replaced by them.

The letter however was intercepted, and the Teutonic Knights took and burned the city ( Copernicus and other canons had left the city shortly before ).

Kaller further appointed an ethnic Pole as new cathedral provost, since his predecessor Provost Franz Xaver Sander ( also official ), and five more fellow cathedral canons had been killed by the invading Soviets.

Later bishops preferred Wells, the canons of which had successfully petitioned various popes down the years for Wells to regain cathedral status.

They married in contravention of church canons, as Maria was still at that time, the wife of Michael VII who had entered the monastery of Stoudios.

Pope John VII had been sent the canons for approval and instead had sent them back, " without any emendations at all ".

However, in 1786 the inhabitants bought their freedom from the canons of Sallanches, to whom the priory had been transferred in 1519.

Theobald began well, sending a party of monks from the cathedral to St Martin's Priory at Dover, which had been settled with canons instead of monks.

It also enacted canons declaring that clergy who refused to give up their wives or concubines would be deprived of their benefices, and that any such women who did not leave the parish where they had been could be expelled and even forced into slavery.

The archbishop had planned to install canons regular into the church, and on William's deathbed dispatched a party of canons from Merton Priory to take over St Martin's.

However, the party of canons, who had been accompanied by two bishops and some other clergy, were prevented from entering by a monk of Canterbury Cathedral, who claimed that St Martin's belonged to the monks of the cathedral chapter.

When Justinian, towards the close of his life, tried to raise the sect of the Aphthartodocetae to the rank of orthodoxy, and determined to expel Eutychius for his opposition, the able lawyer-ecclesiastic of Antioch, who had already distinguished himself by his great edition of the canons, was chosen to carry out the imperial will.

On 15 July 1923, Patriarch declared all Renovationist decrees, as well as all their sacramental actions ( including ordinations ) to be without grace, due to the " trickery " by which they tried to seize power in the Church and to their complete disregard for the canons.

The dissident trend in literature was expressed in different forms in the works of Kasëm Trebeshina, Mehmet Myftiu, Minush Jero, Koço Kosta, etj, who either tried to break out the canons of the socialist realism method or introduced heretic ideas for the communist totalitarian ideology.

# States that all canons of previous councils shall remain in force ; specific councils were clarified by Quinisext Council canon 2.

He made the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan creed the sole symbol of the Church, and accorded legal force to the canons of the four ecumenical councils.

In 1865 the synod of that province, in an urgent letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury ( Dr Longley ), represented the unsettlement of members of the Canadian Church caused by recent legal decisions of the Privy Council, and their alarm lest the revived action of Convocation " should leave us governed by canons different from those in force in England and Ireland, and thus cause us to drift into the status of an independent branch of the Catholic Church ".

Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, Shinto reemerged as the primary belief system, developed its own philosophy and scripture ( based on Confucian and Buddhist canons ), and became a powerful nationalistic force.

The new church had only a short life, for it was plundered and burnt in 1056 by a combined force of Welsh and Irish under Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, the Welsh prince ; it was not, however, destroyed until its custodians had offered vigorous resistance, in which seven of the canons were killed.

Fasiya represents the artist ’ s attachment to the forms and practices that existed in society before his birth … Fasiya is a centripetal force in that it drives the artist to create within a tradition in accordance with the canons embodied by his father and paternal lineage.

The doctrinal decisions of the council are divided into decrees ( decreta ), which contain the positive statement of the conciliar dogmas, and into short canons ( canones ), which condemn the dissenting Protestant views with the concluding " anathema sit " (" let him be anathema ").

Before the commencement of the Holy Liturgy, the bishop-elect professes, in the middle of the church before the seated bishops who will consecrate him, in detail the doctrines of the Orthodox Christian Faith and pledges to observe the canons of the Apostles and Councils, the Typikon and customs of the Orthodox Church and to obey ecclesiastical authority.

During the pontificate of Pope Constantine Gregory was made a papal secretary, and accompanied him to Constantinople in 711 to deal with the issues raised by Rome ’ s rejection of the canons of the Quinisext Council.

Representatives of the canons followed Richard I to France, but before they could interview him he died ; his successor, King John, received them kindly, and granted them permission to hold an election.

At some period ( perhaps 1381, perhaps earlier ) he paid a visit of some days ' duration to the famous mystic John Ruysbroeck, prior of the Augustinian canons at Groenendaal near Brussels ; at this visit was formed Groote's attraction for the rule and life of the Augustinian canons which was destined to bear such notable fruit, At the close of his life he was asked by some of the clerics who attached themselves to him to form them into a religious order and Groote resolved that they should be canons regular of St Augustine.

Kaller could not appoint the four new canons for the chapter any more but was expelled the next day, transferred by lorry to Warsaw, accompanied by Borowiec, who also joined him on the train to Poznań on 18 August.

In 1349 the canons of the chapter at Canterbury elected him Archbishop following the death of Archbishop John Stratford, but Edward III withheld his consent, preferring his chancellor John de Ufford, perhaps loth to lose his trusted confessor.

Forty-five canons are attributed to him.

The Musical Offering ( German title Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer ), BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great ( Frederick II of Prussia ), to whom they are dedicated.

One night while kneeling in prayer before the altar of Our Lady in the metropolitan church, where he used to recite the office with his brother canons, they attacked him, and hired assassins inflicted several wounds from which he died two days after.

His celebrated canons, published in London, about 1800, edited by Pio Cianchettini, show him to have had a strong sense of musical humour.

It was only with the utmost difficulty that Nikon could be persuaded to become the arch-pastor of the Russian Church, and he only yielded after imposing upon the whole assembly a solemn oath of obedience to him in everything concerning the dogmas, canons and observances of the Orthodox Church.

When the First Council of Constantinople met in 381, Maximus's claim to the see of Constantinople was unanimously rejected, the last of its original four canons decreeing " that he neither was nor is a bishop, nor are they who have been ordained by him in any rank of the clergy ".

Following, therefore, the canons and the Fathers, we hold him alien and condemned by reason of his blasphemies, and we anathematize him ".

However, his work captured the world around him, particularly the Kabuki theatre, with great clarity, and his style was a step forward ; in addition, it was commercially successful, and thus freed woodblock prints from many of the restrictive canons which had limited previous generations of artists.

With him there appears the idea that the pope must limit his activity to ecclesiastical matters, and not intrude in those pertaining to the State, which concern kings only ; that his supremacy is bound to respect the prescriptions of the ancient canons and the privileges of the Churches ; and that his decretals must not be placed upon the same footing as the canons of the councils.

It was not only Gerard who complained about the relationship between him and his canons ; the latter accused Gerard of impoverishing York by making gifts of lands to others.

* Augustinians, founded in 1256, which evolved from the canons who would normally work with the Bishop: they lived with him as monks under St. Augustine's rule

At the instance of the emperor, however, the pope interposed his veto ; the canons followed the papal lead, and the progress of the Allies against Louis XIV in the Nine Years War deprived him of all prospect of success, William Egon retired to France.