Pont was a strenuous champion of ecclesiastical independence, and for protesting against parliamentary interference in church government he was obliged to leave his country.

In 1940, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union, whose government undertook a general programme of the dissolution of all ecclesiastical independence within its territory.

This relative ecclesiastical independence from civil authority was a rare achievement and considered by many to be the Reformed ideal.

Before his consecration he became known for supporting ecclesiastical independence from Rome, maintenance of the Great Charter and the exclusion of foreigners from civil and ecclesiastical office.

The construction of this church thus began the ecclesiastical independence of the settlement of the Habsburg Eggenwil.

He also had as one of his aims the authentication of the ecclesiastical independence of Cyprus.

The village at last got its ecclesiastical independence in 1559, in which same year St. Christopher's Church (St.-Christophorus-Kirche) was built.

An important factor also was the village's ecclesiastical independence, with its own church, generally medieval.

Paul is credited with underpinning claims for ecclesiastical independence from Antioch.

In this early period, the Welfs generally represented ecclesiastical independence under the papacy plus "particularism" (a strengthening of the local duchies against the central imperial authority).