ecclesiastical law

Epoch-making in its application of the modern historical method to the study of ecclesiastical law in its theory and practice, it has become the model for the younger school of canonists.

The matter of Christian marriage is dealt with in both the secular and the ecclesiastical laws.

In Scots ecclesiastical law, the manse now signifies the minister’s dwelling-house, the glebe being the land to which he is entitled in addition to his stipend.

He took the first step towards the codification of ecclesiastical law and the definite ratification of the claims of the apostolic chair as corner-stones in the church’s foundation.

The head of the church government is the Supreme Church Council, whose president countersigns the ecclesiastical laws approved by the king.