Meanings of ecclesiastical dignitary in English

No ecclesiastical dignitary in Europe was his superior, except the Pope.

ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

In verse 2 the ecclesiastical dignitary comes first, but in verse 8 the civil.

A certain bishop, who lived at Taos or at Santa Fe, embodied his loftiest idea of an ecclesiastical dignitary.

The measure calls for marriage to be performed or solemnized by a judge, retired judge, preacher, minister, rabbi, or ecclesiastical dignitary.

At Adrianople the Patriarch was beheaded, with eight other ecclesiastical dignitaries.

Ecclesiastical dignitaries, unless popes or sovereigns, are to be entered under their surnames.

Sycophants, courtiers, jesters, imbecile sons of princes, became great ecclesiastical dignitaries.

She appointed magistrates and ecclesiastical dignitaries.

The news has been dominated by ecclesiastical dignitaries declaiming who cannot be granted access to the grace of God.

The number of chief tenants who derived their title from the Crown, including ecclesiastical dignitaries, was probably about fifteen hundred.

This work was sanctioned by various high ecclesiastical dignitaries, and served its purpose; for it covered the retreat of the Church.

The assembly was composed exclusively of nobles in possession of fiefs, of ecclesiastical dignitaries, and of a small number of municipal officers.

And not a few bishops, and other ecclesiastical dignitaries, began to consider learning as prejudicial to piety-and grammar and ungodliness were thought akin.

But as Vienna was a Catholic city, great ecclesiastical dignitaries, not always of noble birth, were on an equality with counts and barons.