ecclesiastical law

Hippolytus’s voluminous writings, which for variety of subject can be compared with those of Origen, embrace the spheres of exegesis, homiletics, apologetics and polemic, chronography and ecclesiastical law.

The matter of Christian marriage is dealt with in both the secular and the ecclesiastical laws.

In Scots ecclesiastical law, the manse now signifies the minister’s dwelling-house, the glebe being the land to which he is entitled in addition to his stipend.

He took the first step towards the codification of ecclesiastical law and the definite ratification of the claims of the apostolic chair as corner-stones in the church’s foundation.

The head of the church government is the Supreme Church Council, whose president countersigns the ecclesiastical laws approved by the king.