• Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is jurisdiction by church leaders over other church leaders and over the laity. Jurisdiction is a word borrowed from the legal...
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  • An ecclesiastical court, also called court Christian or court spiritual, is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious...
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  • An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity...
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  • 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well...
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    is, in a practical use of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal...
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    The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677 (29 Cha. 2. c. 9) was an act of the Parliament of England. It abolished the death penalty for heresy, blasphemy...
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  • the original scope of ecclesiastical courts concerning spiritual or religious matters, thereby creating concurrent jurisdiction in many civil cases with...
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    on Ecclesiastical Courts, the ecclesiastical courts were put on a statutory footing by the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963. The jurisdiction of...
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  • The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 was introduced to simplify ecclesiastical law as it applied to the Church of England, following the recommendations...
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  • Caribbean Jurisdiction - Bishop E. Charles Connor Saint Croix Jurisdiction – Bishop Alan G. Porter Saint Kitts and Nevis Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction – Bishop...
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