- to the
point where individual congregations often set out
rules for
excommunicating laymen (as
opposed to clergy). For example,
churches may sometimes...
- Only a few
dozen cardinals of the
Roman Catholic Church have been
excommunicated by the
Catholic Church. A
cardinal is a
Roman Catholic priest, deacon...
-
communion with heretics,
which led to the Pope
excommunicating them.
Monks in
Constantinople were
excommunicated by Nestorius,
Archbishop of Constantinople...
- Councils, and nominally, by the Holy
Council of Trent, and if need be, We
excommunicate and
anathematize them again,
declaring them by the very fact, deprived...
- and
Marcion visited Rome in Pius' time, and he is
believed to have
excommunicated both groups.
Catholic apologists see this as an
argument for the primacy...
-
appeal to Rome. It was only then that Pope
Clement VII took the step of
excommunicating the King and Cranmer,
although the
excommunication was not made official...
- is
considered automatically excommunicated from the
Church regardless of
whether a
bishop (or the pope) has
excommunicated them publicly. However, in a...
- that the
Catholic Church can inflict, it
supposes a
grave offense. The
excommunicated person is
considered by
Catholic ecclesiastical authority as an exile...
- as king of Sicily,
despite Henry VI's wife's claim. He
threatened to
excommunicate Henry VI for
wrongfully keeping King
Richard I of
England imprisoned...
- was a
French Benedictine abbot and
later cardinal. It was his act of
excommunicating the
Patriarch of Constantinople,
Michael I Cerularius, in 1054 that...
