Examples from literature

• Although this is not an ecclesiastical history, some brief account of the monks, and of the monasteries founded in Ireland about this period, will be necessary. 
• At an early age I studied theology and ecclesiastical law. 
• In a state which separates the ecclesiastical and the civil functions, where freedom of conscience is fully maintained, these two are the only religious agencies engaged in education. 
• In his work on the Primitive Church he endeavors to explain the philosophy of the whole ecclesiastical system. 
• The papacy, then, was a church clothed with civil power, an ecclesiastical body, having authority to punish all dissenters with confiscation, imprisonment, torture, and death.