excommunicate

He did this by threatening to excommunicate from the Church those bishops who refused to comply with his wishes.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025

“They just said, ‘Hey, let’s excommunicate her father.’

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

“They can’t excommunicate me because I am not going anywhere,” she says.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2020

That the Prince of Wales was heavily involved in the decision to excommunicate his brother is evidence of a monarchy in flux.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2019

Such a pair were once sent with bulls to excommunicate Barnabas Visconti, but Barnabas only made them eat their bulls—parchment, ribbons, leaden seals and all.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It now excommunicates anyone who practises polygamy but a number of fundamentalist Mormon offshoots continue to do so.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2020

Complying with the church commandments isn’t such a problem for many Amish inmates, because the church usually excommunicates members who commit crimes of violence or depravity before they enter prison.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2012

The mainstream Mormon church, which has no affiliation with the FLDS, abandoned polygamy in 1890 and excommunicates members engaged in the practice.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2012

Good Catholic wives glanced at the crucifix on the wall, tried not to think of excommunicates.

From Time Magazine Archive

All excommunicates were required to apply personally for absolution to the Holy See.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

“I like to say I was excommunicated from the church of the medical establishment,” he said in the Substack video.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025

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 ● Nov. 28, 2025

He and his wife Anne were excommunicated by his local church in Cape Town, South Africa, the year before he died.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024

Samuel Sanders, director of the Fellowship board, was excommunicated after he wrote an internal email to fellow board members in 1981.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

Her bracelet tinkled, calling communicants to the altar, but the only one in the temple had been excommunicated from the Faith because of his parentage and continued mopping.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Soon after, the patriarch issued his own letter excommunicating the pope’s representatives.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The Vatican has been considering developing a doctrine about excommunicating Catholic mobsters.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2021

Another commenter added, “Why are they excommunicating you over a 1-year-olds attendance? That baby will never remember your wedding day and likely would never care that he wasn’t invited.”

From Fox News ● May 15, 2019

In 1988, Pope John Paul II took the dramatic step of excommunicating a renegade religious society led by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which had rejected Vatican reforms.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2018

Elias of Grado held the same opinions as his predecessor, even excommunicating his adversaries.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson