But that is due mainly to his determined opposition to every kind of ecclesiastical control over it.
The recommendations of the Institute are simply recommendations since the Institute has no ecclesiastical control over its former clients.
In the cortes held at Valladolid in the summer of that year, it was declared that ecclesiastical control of the chancery should cease.
The ars dictandi was taught in the schools connected with the monasteries and those under ecclesiastical control.
Most were first and foremost absolutists and their objective was always to reinforce monarchy, empire, aristocracy...and ecclesiastical control and authority over education.
The Convention is therefore conceived as a cooperative association by which churches can pool resources rather than as a body with any administrative or ecclesiastical control over local churches.
Protestantism later made civil government, the arts, family, education, and economics officially free from ecclesiastical control.
Additionally, ecclesiastical control is viewed as political and exploitative, if not corrupt.
The ban effectively placed all literacy in the Merovingian monarchy squarely under ecclesiastical control and also greatly pleased the nobles, from whose ranks the bishops were ordinarily exclusively drawn.
Gradually, numerous other independent churches were established, after splitting away from their Protestant denominations, and were able to run their own affairs without outside financial aid, interference, or ecclesiastical control.