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excommunication

In religion, exclusion of an offender from the rights and privileges of the Roman Catholic Church. The English monarchs King John, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I were all excommunicated.



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33) There was heated literary exchange between the two men, complicated by the unwillingness of the Missouri party to recognize excommunications enacted by Buffalo pastors unjustly to the Missourians' point of view.
Wilhelm Loehe and the Missouri Synod: forgotten paternity or living ... by Pless, John T. / Currents in Theology and Mission
It is again worth emphasing that, while there were unjust anathemas, depositions, and excommunications, these theological battles were waged with pen and tongue, not rack and fire.
Later heresies by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
Through edicts and bulls, inquisitions and excommunications, the church has attempted to prorogue truth and place an impenetrable stone wall in the path of the truth-seeker.
Will the real Martin Luther King please stand up by Nall, Jeff / The Humanist
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