Under canon law, the consecration a bishop without papal permission is grounds for automatic excommunication of both individuals.

The pope accused Landulf of exceeding his authority by making truces without papal permission.

She obtained papal permission to leave her congregation and to become a consecrated virgin.

They sent Augustine back to Rome to request papal permission to return.

Immediately after his arrival in Münster, he created several indulgences, with papal permission.

The next year, after 10 years' service, Mr. Pfyffer pleaded ill health and received papal permission to retire at the age of 65.

Archbishop Lefebvre plans to consecrate four bishops on Thursday without papal permission.

In the following years, in order to protect herself from Ubald, she married twice more, both times without papal permission.

In early 1466, he became domherr of Speyer Cathedral by special papal permission.

Robert's effort to secure papal permission for the relocation of his see was successful.