excommunicate

Example Sentences

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Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catholic Church from a convent they refuse to leave, a court said on Friday.

From Barron's

The bishops had accused the church of neglecting their region, and each side excommunicated the other.

From Washington Post

In the winter of 1170, in his Normandy castle, King Henry II was furious that Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, had excommunicated several of his loyal bishops.

From Washington Post

The archbishops, who have been excommunicated after setting up a breakaway synod, say they have a great deal of support in Oromia.

From BBC

The Russian Orthodox Church stripped Romanov of his abbot’s rank for breaking monastic rules and later excommunicated him, but he rejected the rulings.

From Seattle Times