Corrective church discipline is a response of an ecclesiastical body to some perceived wrong, whether in action or in doctrine.

Poor Relief refers to any actions taken by either governmental or ecclesiastical bodies to relieve poverty experienced by a population.

The seminary sends special reports to these ecclesiastical bodies, seeks their advice, and invites them to participate in accreditation visits.

There are a number of smaller statutory jurisdictions, such as appeals from ecclesiastical and professional bodies.

They were often subject to persecution and perceived as a subversive element by the nineteenth century Russian authorities and ecclesiastical bodies.

It has been a registered ecclesiastical and religious body in Sweden since 2008.

This interim report, written by Bailey, signalled the first twentieth-century extended treatment of homosexuality by an ecclesiastical body.

Spiritist centres differ from Spiritualist churches in that they are not formally organized as ecclesiastical bodies.

In this expedient the whole ecclesiastical body acquiesced, and thus yielded up their spiritual privileges, under coercion by the temporal power.

State statutes, which date to 1909, require that people who marry couples be "duly authorized" by an ecclesiastical body.