:" A little later he built a church on his own ancestral property and served God with the utmost devotion.

Another possible explanation for the origins of obligatory celibacy revolves around more practical reason, " the need to avoid claims on church property by priests ' offspring ".

To obtain money he seized church lands and property, and used the funds to pay his soldiers.

At that time he was officially charged with selling church property to help the poor.

Only those congregations belonging to the former Reformed Churches in the Netherlands have the legal right to secede from the PKN without losing its property and church during a transition period of 10 years.

A year later, Voltaire's old friends began a campaign to have his body buried in the Panthéon, as church property had been confiscated by the French Government.

This process took five years to complete, in which time Danish was used instead of Latin and church property was transferred to the state.

No archdeacon, archpriest, provost, or dean shall bestow on another the care of souls or the prebends of a church without the decision or consent of the bishop ; indeed, as the sacred canons point out, the care of souls and the disposition of ecclesiastical property are vested in the authority of the bishop.

At the same time George maintained his correspondence with Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, discussing such questions as the evangelization of monasteries, the use of monastic property for evangelical purposes, and especially the foundation of lower schools for the people and of higher schools for the education of talented young men for the service of church and state.

The progressive legislature enacted the 1905 laws on laïcité, which created a complete separation of church and state and stripped churches of most of their property rights.

A revolution swept over the country: churches and monasteries were destroyed, and church property was seized by the Hussite nobility.

The last county to be formed was County Wicklow in 1606-1607, taking in the southern part of Dublin ( with the exception of three " islands ," exclaves of ( mainly ) church property ), and the northern part of " Catherlough " or Carlow, including Arklow.

He appeared to have openly advised the secularization of English church property, and the dominant parties shared his conviction that the monks could better be controlled if they were relieved from the care of secular affairs.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property.

In France, the French Revolution saw the confiscation in 1789 of church libraries and rich nobles ' private libraries, and their collections became state property.

Francia banned religious orders, closed the country's only seminary, " secularized " monks and priests by forcing them to swear loyalty to the state, abolished the fuero eclesiástico ( the privilege of clerical immunity from civil courts ), confiscated church property, and subordinated church finances to state control.

By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial unit but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it.

In England this church property was technically in the ownership of the parish priest, vested in him on his institution to that parish.

Early in 313, Constantine and fellow Emperor Licinius reached an agreement at Milan that they would grant freedom of religion to the Christians and other religions and restore church property.

Events overtook the rhetoric, however ; 26 new cardinals were created in a single day, and by an arbitrary alienation of the estates and property of the church, funds were raised for open war.

2 ) The Supreme Court case Jones v. Wolf,, allowed for church property cases to be adjudicated in civil courts in the U. S., giving churches hostile to national or regional bodies a possible platform to secede.

As a result of this formalist approach, some things the common law deems to be land would not be classified as such by most modern legal systems, for example an advowson ( the right to present to the living of a church ) was real property.

While Boniface was not able to safeguard the church from property seizures by the local nobility, he did achieve one goal, the adoption of stricter guidelines for the Frankish clergy, which often hailed directly from the nobility.

The Byzantine Empire however was not theocratic since the patriarch answered to the emperor, not vice versa ; similarly in Tudor England the crown forced the church to break away from Rome so the royal ( and, especially later, parliamentary ) power could assume full control of the now Anglican hierarchy and confiscate most church property and income.

At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.

The classical lines of the church which Napoleon thought of as a Temple of Glory, dominated all the scene where we sat.

In the second and third chapters of Revelation the new version retains, however, the old phrase `` angel of the church '' which Biblical scholars have previously interpreted as meaning bishop.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

There is a vast difference between the community of reconciliation which the New Testament describes and the community of congeniality found in the average church building.

As a result, they go on thinking of the church, with introverted and self-centered satisfaction, only in connection with the way in which it serves them and their families.

A local church which conceives its function to be entirely that of ministering to the conscious desires and concerns of its members tends to look on everything ecumenical as an extra, not as a normal aspect of its own life as a church.

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

But, as Scripture everywhere reminds us, God does have need of his creatures, and the church, a fortiori, can ill afford to do without the talents with which the world, by God's providence, presents it.

The good feeling which exists between these two important church figures is now well known in England.

But Parker as the ultra-liberal minister within the pale of a church which had proclaimed itself the repository of liberality poses a different problem, which is not to be resolved by holding him up as the champion of freedom.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

The role of both church and university as sources of information and settings within which the implications of such information may be explored needs consideration.

To them he could have been the broken bell in the church tower which rang before and after Mass, and at noon, and at six each evening -- its tone, repetitive, monotonous, never breaking the boredom of the streets.

The word `` church '' which turned up over and over again among Jubal's words gave him knotty difficulty ; ;

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

This continued most of the week following that ill-starred trip to church, during which period Mike stayed in his room and usually in a trance so deep that Jubal would have pronounced him dead had he not seen it before.

The family attended a Separate Baptists church, which had restrictive moral standards and opposed alcohol, dancing, and slavery.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).