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Excommunication meaning
The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
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Ehler, Sidney Z., Church and State Through the Centuries, (Biblo-Moser, 1988), 180. It was the official decree of excommunication on her and it also declared an ipso facto excommunication on anyone who did not deny allegiance to her.
Excommunication * Canon 47: Excommunication may be imposed only after warning in the presence of suitable witnesses and for manifest and reasonable cause.
The decree of excommunication must indicate the precise effect of the excommunication and, if required, its duration.
It said that the investigation also had examined the main accusations against Rupnik and the procedures behind his excommunication.
Speaking to daily Hürriyet about his excommunication, Gagaçyan stated that he has been maintaining contact with the church since the late 90s.
A central storyline of the film is Oppenheimer’s loss of his security clearance and eventual excommunication from the halls of power — a result of the Red Scare and his advocacy of nuclear disarmament policies that people in power did not want to hear.
Excommunication is the harshest penalty the church can apply.
Among the papers Mark showed me that day was a series of letters about a man from Springfield, Massachusetts, who had been disfellowshipped—a form of excommunication—three times.
Some in the Catholic Church have demanded Governor Cuomo’s excommunication.
Only after Theodosius was deemed to have been sufficiently and publicly humiliated over the matter, was his excommunication rescinded.
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An argument with Pope Innocent III led to John's excommunication in 1209, a dispute finally settled by the king in 1213.
A new conflict was inevitable from the very fact that Henry considered the sentence of deposition repealed along with that of excommunication.
Anselm threatened excommunication, and in July 1105 the two men finally negotiated a solution.
A sentence of excommunication was pronounced against Henry V, who had extorted through violence from the pope the concessions documented in the Privilegium.
At least one modern Reformed theologian argues that excommunication is not the final step in the disciplinary process.
Augustus Potthast, Regesta pontificum Romanorum II (Berlin 1875), p. 943. As Cardinal de' Fieschi, Sinibaldo had been on friendly terms with Frederick, even after his excommunication.
Calvin protested that the council did not have the legal authority to overturn Berthelier's excommunication.
Charles, who in 732 was on the verge of excommunication, instead was recognised by the Church as its paramount defender.
Congregational discipline and conflict resolution are applied using various forms of consultation, mediation, and discussion, with disfellowship (similar to excommunication ) being the final response to those with unorthodox practices or beliefs.