Now this was not an official ecclesiastical authority.

但这不是正式的教会权威。

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His actual official ecclesiastical authority as bishop was only in Antioch and its environs.

他的官方主教权威，仅限于安提阿及周边地区。

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The color black, the preference of ecclesiastical leaders, was a symbol of authority.

黑色在那时受到神职人员的青睐，是权威的象征。

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Yet beneath the formal structures of ecclesiastical authority, the expression of religious feeling was increasingly laicised and its doctrinal base became progressively more heterodox.

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He first entered the States of Guernsey in 1997, and currently also serves on the Parochial Ecclesiastical Rates Review Committee and the Emergency Powers Authority.

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