Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

From the 14th century, the term was also used for a junior member of a guild ( otherwise known as " yeomen ") or university ; hence, an ecclesiastic of an inferior grade, for example, a young monk or even recently appointed canon ( Severtius, de episcopis Lugdunen-sibus, p. 377, in du Cange ).

To emphasise this, Honorius decreed that the Archbishop of Canterbury could not ask for any oath of obedience from the Archbishop of York, and in the matter of honorary distinction, it was the Archbishop of Canterbury in his role as Legate that was the most elevated ecclesiastic in the kingdom.

Whether it was because of the money he had ( most of which was from when he stole part of the ecclesiastic treasury ) or due to Greek influence that wanted to keep him in power for their own gains ( or perhaps a combination of them both ), it is clear that he must have had the support of an influential group to have stayed in power for as long as he did.

The façade he designed is perhaps more palatial than ecclesiastic, and was finished by 1735.

In ecclesiastic affairs he issued the first papal decree against the Freemasons on 28 April 1738, it was titled In eminenti.

Pope Clement XIII was " the honestest man in the world ; a most exemplary ecclesiastic ; of the purest morals ; devout, steady, learned, diligent ..."

In addition, he was made a kind of papal vicar for the whole of Gaul ; no Gallic ecclesiastic being permitted to journey to Rome without bringing with him a certificate of identity from Patroclus.

He owed his elevation partly to the fact that no one was eager to accept an office the duties of which were at the time so difficult and dangerous, but chiefly to his being the friend and pupil of Bernard of Clairvaux, the most influential ecclesiastic of the Western Church and a strong assertor of the pope's temporal authority.

The Tudors made no substantial changes in their foreign policy from either Lancaster or York, whether the alliance was with Aragon or Cleves, the chief foreign enemies continuing as the Auld Alliance, but the Tudors resurrected old ecclesiastic arguments once pursued by Henry II of England and his son John of England.

After the Congress of Vienna, Prussia was awarded with the entire Rhineland, which included the Grand Duchy of Berg, the ecclesiastic electorates of Trier and Cologne, the free cities of Aachen and Cologne, and nearly a hundred small lordships and abbeys.

The Witenagemot was an assembly of the ruling class whose primary function was to advise the king and whose membership was composed of the most important noblemen in England, both ecclesiastic and secular.

The ecclesiastic system of copyhold, whereby land was leased to tenants for terms as short as seven years, prevailed throughout the manor.

Michael Choniates ( or Acominatus ) () ( c. 1140 – 1220 ), Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic, was born at Chonae ( the ancient Colossae ).

The agricultural reconquest, begun in the 10th century, was supported by the ecclesiastic power, which allowed the laic lords to exploit the earth resources and to build some fortified settlements for their own peasants, and favoured a new economic and demographic growth.

This literary genre was often used as ecclesiastic and political propaganda.

Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup ( 3 January 1802 – 11 October 1878 ) was a French ecclesiastic.

It became a part of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg in the 10th century and remained so until 1680, when Brandenburg-Prussia annexed it together with Magdeburg as the Duchy of Magdeburg, while it was also an important location for Martin Luther's Reformation with Albert of Mainz as his ecclesiastic counterpart.

1126 ), was an English historian, theologian, and ecclesiastic.

Carl Gustaf Nordin ( born 2 January 1749 in Stockholm, died 14 March 1812 in Härnösand ) was a Swedish statesman, historian and ecclesiastic.

Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro offers a singular example of monarchs willingly turning their power to ecclesiastic authority ( Montenegrin Orthodox ), as the last of the House of Crnojević ( styled Grand Voivode, not sovereign princes ) did, in order to preserve national unity before the Ottoman onslaught as a separate millet under an autochthonous ethnarch.

At the last meeting of the Imperial Diet () in 1802-03, also called the German Mediatisation, most of the free imperial cities and the ecclesiastic states lost their imperial immediacy and were absorbed by several dynastic states.

This last section includes a description of a sundial calibrated for the measurement of unequal hours, such as those used in the ecclesiastic calendar, which foresaw twelve hours of light and twelve of dark, which was subject to severe seasonal variations.

* John Feckenham ( c. 1515 – 1584 ), canonised English ecclesiastic and last abbot of Westminster, was born at Feckenham.

Alan of Soltre, chaplain, who had probably been an ecclesiastic of the hospital, or monastery of Soutra, in Lothian, was presented by the Abbot of Kelso, to the vicarage of the church of Culter, 1239 – 1240.

Arguments for Stigand having performed the coronation, however, rely on the fact that no other English source names the ecclesiastic who performed the ceremony ; all Norman sources name Stigand as the presider.

Nevertheless, upon Andrew's request, the Archbishop withdrew the ecclesiastic punishments soon and the Pope promised that the dignitaries of the King of Hungary would never be excommunicated without his special authorization.

It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men .... It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation —' the Mother of Harlots.

Charles further allied himself with controversial ecclesiastic figures, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, whom Charles appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Third Council of the Lateran of 1179 guaranteed the access – now largely free of charge – of all able applicants, who were, however, still tested for aptitude by the ecclesiastic scholastic.

When Thomas Wyatt the younger instigated what became known as Wyatt's rebellion, John Ponet, the highest-ranking ecclesiastic among the exiles, allegedly participated in the uprising.

Erasmus wrote both on ecclesiastic subjects and those of general human interest.

Some Christian denominations are organized on federalist principles ; in these churches this is known as ecclesiastic or theological federalism.

The LDS Church has also compiled indexes of the submissions of its members, resulting in several large databases: the International Genealogical Index, or IGI, which includes both data extracted from filmed civil and ecclesiastic records from various worldwide locales and member-submitted information ; the Ancestral File, or AF, which includes the contributions of church members ; and the Pedigree Resource File, or PRF, compiled from member and non-member submissions.

In 619, Saint Isidore of Seville pronounced anathema against any ecclesiastic who in any way should molest the monasteries and children.

His father worked with the ecclesiastic mint.

* 1653 – Agostino Steffani, Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat, and composer ( d. 1728 )

* 1606 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, and writer ( d. 1682 )

Since the 17th century, the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic year has started on the first day of Advent, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day ( 30 November ).

The royal courts operated alongside and in competition with ecclesiastic, manorial, urban, mercantile, and local courts.

In 787 Adrian elevated the English diocese of Lichfield to an archdiocese at the request of the English bishops and King Offa of Mercia to balance the ecclesiastic power in that land between Kent and Mercia.

When Henry I died in 1135, Stephen quickly crossed the English Channel and with the help of his brother Henry of Blois, a powerful ecclesiastic, took the throne, arguing that the preservation of order across the kingdom took priority over his earlier oaths to support the claim of Henry I's daughter, the Empress Matilda.