Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

The Latin clergy were expelled after the city was captured by Saladin, the sultan of Egypt and Syria.

Osnabrück was a bidenominational Lutheran and Catholic city, with two Lutheran and two Catholic churches for its mostly Lutheran burghers and exclusively Lutheran city council and the Catholic Chapter of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück with pertaining other clergy and also other Catholic inhabitants.

Like a growing number of aristocrats in the late 4th and early 5th centuries who were entering the clergy rather than taking up the more usual administrative careers in the imperial service, Paulinus spent a great deal of his money on his chosen church and city.

* Emperor Xuanzong of Tang forbids all commercial vendors and shops in the Chinese capital city of Chang ' an to copy and sell Buddhist sutras, so that the emperor can give the clergy of the Buddhist monasteries the sole right to distribute written sutras to the laity.

His concordat with Florence ( 1516 ) guaranteed the free election of the clergy in that city.

At a young age he became a lector among the clergy of Antioch, then resided a while in a monastery, was a cleric at Cyrrhus, and in 423 became bishop over a diocese about forty miles square and embracing 800 parishes, but with an insignificant town as its see city.

During the same year Matthew was appointed Bishop of Worms, but, beyond his settling of the dispute between the people and clergy of that city, we know little of his episcopal activity.

The Public Council, composed of forty-eight councillors chosen by the people, four members of the clergy and four doctors of the university, met under the presidency of the chief magistrate of the city, the viquier ( Occitan ) or vicar or representative of the papal Legate or Vice-legate, who annually nominated a man for the post.

In the year 714, Emperor Xuanzong forbade shops and vendors in the city of Chang ' an to sell copied Buddhist sutras, instead giving the Buddhist clergy of the monasteries the sole right to distribute sutras to the laity.

But Perugia had no mind simply to subserve the papal interests and never accepted papal sovereignty: the city used to exercise a jurisdiction over the members of the clergy, moreover in 1282 Perugia was excommunicated due to a new military offensive against the Ghibellines regardless of a papal prohibition.

The rest of the Catholic clergy sided with the city, with the exception of the Jesuits, the Theatines, and the Capuchins.

Prior to Prince's election black clergy made political endorsements and served as appointees to the Richmond School Board and other boards throughout the city.

However, as for the clergy and people of Constantinople an Arian was not eligible to become an emperor, at the news of the appointment riots broke out in the city hippodrome, led by the head of the Sleepless Monks, Marcellus: Aspar and Leo had to promise to the bishops that Patricius would convert to Orthodoxy before becoming emperor, and only after the conversion he would have married Leontia.

The proposal found support among the Roman Catholic clergy and especially the bishops, while in no part of Ireland was it received with more favour than in the city of Cork.

For four centuries the clergy ruled Hildesheim, before a city hall was built and the citizens gained some influence and independence.

While the city council vacillated on religious issues, the number of people supporting the Reformation and hostile towards the traditional clergy had grown.

Saladin entertained Walter during his stay in Jerusalem, and the Englishman succeeded in extracting a promise from Saladin that a small group of Western clergy would be allowed to remain in the city to perform divine services.

Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the imaginary cathedral city of Barchester.

The Church of Ireland parish clergy solicited donations, which they converted into free rations in the city parishes, distributing nearly 80 tons of coal and ten tons of meal just four weeks into the Frost.

When Gerhardt came to Berlin he found a city full of strife between the Lutheran and Reformed clergy.

There is almost no precedent for a two-cathedral city, and some believe it was intended that St Patrick's, a secular ( diocesan clergy who are not members of a religious order, i. e. under a rule and, therefore, ' regular ') cathedral, would replace Christ Church, a cathedral managed by an order.

At St Martin's Ongar he took a leading part in the contest between the London clergy and the citizens about the city tithes, and compiled a treatise on the subject, which is printed in Brewster's Collectanea ( 1752 ).

it spoke for many in the clergy, I suspect.

The Arians appealed to many high level leaders and clergy in both the Western and Eastern empires.

In the East, Emperor Theodosius I likewise professed the Nicene creed ; but there were many adherents of Arianism throughout his dominions, especially among the higher clergy.

* They hold that the continuing practice among many Independent clergy of one person receiving multiple ordinations in order to secure apostolic succession, betrays an incorrect and mechanistic theology of ordination.

Latter-day Saint bishops do not wear any special clothing or insignia the way clergy in many other churches do, but are expected to dress and groom themselves neatly and conservatively per their local culture, especially when performing official duties.

For example, in the United Methodist Church, bishops are elected for life, can serve up to two terms in a specific conference ( three if special permission is given ), are responsible for ordaining and appointing clergy to pastor churches, perform many administrative duties, preside at the annual sessions of the regional Conferences and at the quadrennial meeting of the worldwide General Conference, have authority for teaching and leading the church on matters of social and doctrinal import, and serve to represent the denomination in ecumenical gatherings.

Much to the anger of many Volunteers, MacCurtain, under pressure from Catholic clergy, agreed to surrender his men's arms to the British on Wednesday.

In England, clergy performed many clandestine marriages, such as so-called Fleet Marriage, which were held legally valid ; and in Scotland, unsolemnized common-law marriage was still valid.

Luther's appearance was hailed by the Utraquist clergy, and Martin Luther himself was astonished to find so many points of agreement between the doctrines of Huss and his own.

Both the Codex and the Novellae contain many enactments regarding donations, foundations, and the administration of ecclesiastical property ; election and rights of bishops, priests and abbots ; monastic life, residential obligations of the clergy, conduct of divine service, episcopal jurisdiction, etc.

John seized the lands of those clergy unwilling to conduct services, as well as those estates linked to Innocent himself ; he arrested the illicit concubines that many clerics kept during the period, only releasing them after the payment of fines ; he seized the lands of members of the church who had fled England, and he promised protection for those clergy willing to remain loyal to him.

Many clergy and lay people of Utrecht did not want to become one more formerly autonomous jurisdiction now under Roman control, however, many did.

Pius XII's refusal to censure the German invasion and annexation of Poland was regarded as a " betrayal " by many Polish Catholics and clergy, who saw his appointment of Hilarius Breitinger as apostolic administrator for the Wartheland in May 1942 as " implicit recognition " of the breakup of Poland ; the opinions of the Volksdeutsche, mostly German Catholic minorities living in occupied Poland, were more mixed.

But Harsnett was in the minority, and many clergy, not only Puritans, took the opposite viewpoint.

In the higher ranks of the German clergy Gregory had many enemies, and a Roman cardinal, Hugo Candidus, once on intimate terms with him but now his opponent, had hurried to Germany for the occasion.

During the 1960s and 1970s many people in the USA became ministers in the ULC because they believed that being a minister either would help keep them from being drafted into military service during the Vietnam War or would enable them to get income tax relief as members of the clergy.

The site has been visited many times by the Popes and other senior clergy, including a visit by Pope Benedict XVI in May 2009.

Due to its large landholdings and institutional rigidity, a rigidity the excessively large ranks of the clergy contributed to, many bishops studied law, not theology, being relegated to the role of property managers trained in administration.

However, the Safavids ' strategy was in many ways too successful: the power and influence of the religious class meant that they had a great deal of autonomy, and it was the subsequent tension between Safavid state and the clergy that drove Bahrain's theological vitality.

Secular clergy, many of whom would have been members of the nobility, had been expelled from the new monasteries.

In many denominations, such as Methodism, Presbyterianism, and Lutheranism, the roles of clergy are similar to Roman Catholic or Anglican clergy, in that they hold an ordained pastoral or priestly office, administer the sacraments, proclaim the word, lead a local church or parish, and so forth.

The pastoral care function of the Christian clergy such as a Catholic priest or Protestant pastor is fulfilled for many Muslims by a murshid (" guide "), master of the spiritual sciences and disciplines known as tasawuf or Sufism.