The priest who was to perform the marriage ceremony refused and Arteaga made an appeal to the ecclesiastical tribunal.

They accepted, for instance, the various ecclesiastical tribunals known as Inquisitions.

It also oversees the work of other ecclesiastical tribunals at all levels.

Grandier was arrested, interrogated and tried by an ecclesiastical tribunal, which acquitted him.

Defeats at the polls and in ecclesiastical tribunals pushed them to the margins.

He was about to be cited before an ecclesiastical tribunal when the pope died.

Unlike courts of common law tradition, ecclesiastical tribunals do not follow the adversarial system.

Hence the exceptional authority of the royal capitularies before ecclesiastical tribunals.

He faced an ecclesiastical tribunal and was acquitted.

This is quite a change from the days when a bold new theory could land a scientist before an ecclesiastical tribunal.