He administered for the king a large proportion of the vacant ecclesiastical offices.

The holder, however, does not hold the ecclesiastical office of a Bishop.

The licenciate in canon law is required for particular internal ecclesiastical offices.

They are also forbidden to exercise any ecclesiastical office or the like.

Natives were also removed from high governmental and ecclesiastical office.

This is not to be confused with the ecclesiastical office of vicar.

He held a very large number of ecclesiastical offices.

Only the archives, the ecclesiastical office and the library remained as a link to earlier times.

Several of his brothers also held high ecclesiastical offices in the Rhineland.

In the following years he was active in both governmental and ecclesiastical offices.