matters purely ecclesiastical
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From 393 U.S. 440 - Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · 1969Most cited · 1,426 citing opinions
the decisions of the proper church tribunals on matters purely ecclesiastical, although affecting civil rights, are accepted in litigation before the secular courts as conclusive, because the parties in interest made them so by contract or otherwise