But they will not save him from the charge of indifference to ecclesiastical politics.
On ethnic identity and ecclesiastical politics in Sozomen, see:
He protested strongly against the executions of the Spanish Priscillians, and seems to have played a part in ecclesiastical politics at a high level.
Acton himself washed his hands of ecclesiastical politics.
Barlow also took part in general ecclesiastical politics.
(20) In terms of practical ecclesiastical or secular politics, monks needed book learning.
Nevertheless they do illustrate the complexities of local ecclesiastical politics.
It is unlikely that he had kept his hands out of ecclesiastical politics in a diocese which could easily have become his family's see.
In ecclesiastical politics the bishop belonged to the school of Becket.
Miracles, convulsions, and ecclesiastical politics in early eighteenth-century Paris.