papal decree

This phenomena was acknowledged by a papal decree in 1797.

Construction workers were guaranteed a reservation in Heaven by a papal decree of 1409.

This permission was granted by Papal decree in 1239 and the chapel built shortly after.

Couple years back, a papal decree was issued to clean up the roster of venerable saints.

He burns the papal decree of excommunication and prays for God's support.

Hugh was the most forceful advocate of the principle which the new papal decree embodied.

The diocese was formally joined to Tuam by papal decree in 1631.

Papal decrees were not permitted and contacts with the Vatican remained outlawed.

There would be no inquisition in France, and papal decrees could operate only after the government approved them.

Had he not himself acted thus after hearing the papal decree against lay investiture and clerical homage?

He produced the papal decree ordering his restoration, but was instead briefly imprisoned and then exiled by the king.

The Papal decree changed the ecclesiastical situation in China in an almost revolutionary way.

The papal decree that papally decrees all this.

In 1965, a papal decree during the Second Vatican Council ended the use of the galero.

In 1908, the papal decree Ne Temere came into effect which complicated mixed marriages.

(See also the Treaty of Tordesillas that followed the papal decree.)

A papal decree of 1447 formed these various communities into a new and separate religious Order with its own Rule of Life.

Anselm supported Henry, and he did not make his support conditional on Henry's acceptance of the new papal decrees.

He looked upon himself as absolutely bound to obey the papal decree; but he was no crusader for the principle which it enshrined.

Not long afterwards the intrinsic intellectual inferiority of the American Indians was formally proclaimed by papal decree.

Portuguese influence was strong in India due to an early papal decree that all mission territories would be under Portuguese control.

According to documents in the archives of the order this part of Jouvancy's book was written before the publication of the papal decree.

Henry insisted that he reserved the traditionally established right of previous emperors to "invest" bishops and other clergymen, despite the papal decree.

Noticeable in the silence was any word from the House of St. Teresa, which had been specifically excluded from the papal decree.

Papal decrees - particular type of letters patent or charter issued by a Pope of the Catholic Church.