His first ecclesiastical appointment was as dean of Le Mans, around 1093.

The anti-investiture decree, however great its symbolic importance, did little to diminish the power of lay rulers over ecclesiastical appointments.

Apart from this, the clerics of the Camera are usually professors and canons, with regular ecclesiastical appointments.

These changes brought the customary rights of lay rulers such as John over ecclesiastical appointments into question.

Such concordats allowed the Catholic Church to organize youth groups, make ecclesiastical appointments, run schools, hospitals, and charities, or even conduct religious services.

He held both ecclesiastical appointments until his death on 24 April 1776, aged 82.

He held a number of ecclesiastical appointments before and after becoming bishop.

The monarch also has power to exercise her prerogative over the granting of honours, the regulation of the armed forces and ecclesiastical appointments.

Otto strengthened the royal authority by re-asserting the old Carolingian rights over ecclesiastical appointments.

Otto continued to support celibacy for the higher clergy, so ecclesiastical appointments never became hereditary.