decretal's Usage Examples:

decreta, statuta, decretalia constituta, even when the letters were often hortatory in form.

Decretals (Latin: litterae decretales) are letters of a pope that formulate decisions in ecclesiastical law of the Catholic Church.

" In a decretal of 1173, Pope Alexander III reprimanded some bishops for permitting veneration.

haeresium pravitatem, or ‘To abolish diverse malignant heresies’) was a decretal and bull of Pope Lucius III, written at Verona and issued 4 November 1184.

His are the oldest completely preserved papal decretals.

Many canons in this code can easily be retraced in their relationship to and dependency on medieval decretals as well as.

Gennadius of Constantinople against simoniacs; Marcian, who signed in 518 the decretal letter of the Council of Constantinople against Severus and other heretics.

He confirmed the prerogatives of the Archbishop of Thessalonica, and issued a decretal on disciplinary.

The decision was inspired by the 1199 decretal Vergentis in senium of Pope Innocent III.

Rama (Vox in Roma according to another source) ("A voice in Ramah") is a decretal sent by Pope Gregory IX in June 1233 condemning the heresy of Luciferianism.

confirmed the prerogatives of the Archbishop of Thessalonica, and issued a decretal on disciplinary matters referred to him by the Bishop of Rouen.

magna altercatio, utrum videlicet domini cardinales deberent cogi ad observandum praecise decretalem Ubi majus, ut videlicet post octavam diem non haberent.

so favourably impressed by him that he confirmed the election, issued a decretal on his behalf (Innocentii Decretalium Collectio, tit.