These geographic areas contain stakes and districts which are ecclesiastical divisions or units of the church.
The Brethren emerged in the 1820s as an independent movement that protested about the ecclesiastical divisions of Protestant churches.
Parishes arose from Church of England divisions, and were originally purely ecclesiastical divisions.
The doctrinal and ecclesiastical divisions of Christianity, so rich in history, so stridently debated and defended, proved equally, if not more, irrelevant.
From the fourth century developed (evidently in connection with the seven Roman deacons) an ecclesiastical division into seven regions, which gradually replaced the earlier civil divisions.
Because this mention occurs in a listing of seventh-century ecclesiastical divisions at the time of Wamba, Wilhelm Reinhart believes it was based on an earlier source.
The Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana is an ecclesiastical division of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Eggedal is an ecclesiastical division rather than a political division.
The Archdiocese of San Salvador is the chief ecclesiastical division of El Salvador, serving the Salvadoran capital, San Salvador, and surrounding region.
In Norway (excluding Iceland) the þrithjungr seems to have been an ecclesiastical division.
