In 1834 he accepted the parish of St Jude's, Liverpool, where for the next thirty years he wielded great-political as well as ecclesiastical influence.

Across the island on its opposite tip, the city of Erice is 2,450 feet above sea level and an example of the Norman's military rather than ecclesiastical influence.

The rise of the Franks had, moreover, been accompanied by a steady erosion of Byzantine military power, and therefore political and ecclesiastical influence, in the whole Mediterranean era.

Nonetheless, Valoret remains one of the largest and oldest cities in the Eleven Kingdoms, and its ecclesiastical influence in Gwynedd is unmatched.

As a minister of state, his accomplishments included the modernization of higher education and the suppression of ecclesiastical influence.

If they deferred to ecclesiastical influence at all, it was because they held it needful for the purpose of controlling the ignorant populace.

The ecclesiastical influence is everywhere, from the carved staircases to the stained-glass windows.

In Byzantium, ecclesiastical and Eastern influences coincided.

This swept away the last vestiges of ecclesiastical influence in the politics of Wolverhampton and created a much stronger expectation of local accountability.

By allowing English ecclesiastical influence in his kingdom, he was spurning the Hamburg-Bremen archbishop.