A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Ecclesia,-ae (s.f.I): a church; an assembly, a gathering, a meeting; the Church; an assembly of Christians; a church building [> Gk. ekklEsia (s.f.I), “an assembly of the citizens regularly summoned, the legislative assembly; in New Test. The Church, either the body, or the place” (Liddell & Scott)];

- in ecclesiae muris, on the walls of a church.

- India orientalis, ubi cum plantis multis aliis apostolus ecclesiae Klein in parietibus domorum mensibus Dec. et Jan. primus legit et ad Willdenow misit. (C. Muell.), eastern India, where Klein, a missionary of the church, collected it on the walls of buildings in the months of December and January and sent it to Willdenow.

- [Lichen saxatilis] in Monte Fesulano, & in collibus inter Ecclesiam Casiniani, & Juguli Plebaniam (Mich.), on Monte Fesulano, and in the hills between the Church of Casiniani and Plebania Juguli.

- [Lichen crustaceus] in Casiniani collibus, inter rus Domini de Arrighis, & rivulum ‘Soglia,’ nec non in Plebania Cercinae, per loca ‘le Masse,’ in capite viae, quae ad supradictam Ecclsiam ducit (Mich.), on the hills of [Plebiana] Casiniani, between the estate of Lord [Dominus] de Arrighis, and the river ‘Soglia,’ and also in the Plebania of Cercina, throughout the places ‘le Masse,’ at the head of the road, which leads to the aforementioned Church.

- secus viam sub Ecclesia S. Мiniatis de Podio ditionis Vallis-Umbrosae (Mich.), along the road below the Church of Saint Miniatus de Podium [Italian: poggio] in the [administrative district] of Vallis-Umbrosa [= Vallombrosa; Florence, Tuscany, Italy].

- in archive dominae nostrae sanctae Romanae ecclesiae, scilicet in sacro Lateranensi scrinio, in the archives of ourlady the holy Roman church, in the sacred scrinium of the Lateran.

Summus Pontifex Ecclesiae Universalis: Supreme Pontiff of the whole Church = Pope, the Bishop of Rome.

Ecclesia catholica, the Catholic Church; Ecclesia catholica romana, the Roman Catholic Church.