The next year he married, and in 1466 or 1467 he became a member of the Brotherhood, rising in the ecclesiastical ranks through the 1470s.

The following day it reported that, since his ecclesiastical rank entitled him to a vote in Convocation, he could not sit in the House of Commons.

Thomas Bowers rose rapidly through the ecclesiastical ranks, probably with the dukes help.

Nonetheless, his elevation as bishop last year was highly unusual, as that ecclesiastical rank has traditionally been reserved for unmarried, celibate priests.

I was not aware that the Preceptors also enjoyed ecclesiastical rank.

This article is about Byzantine governors and ecclesiastical ranks.

The term is distinct from protoiereus (archpriest), the highest ecclesiastical rank to which a married priest may attain in the Greek Church.

Rayno, despite his own sophistication and ecclesiastical rank, still regarded such distant lands as Charis with automatic suspicion.

He functions at an ecclesiastical rank second only to the Patriarch, having the privilege to preside over the consecration of new patriarchs.

Her Uncle Joram would have the final say, of course, even though Bishop Niallan was his senior in years and ecclesiastical rank.