diocesan

[ dahy-os-uh-suhn ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a diocese.

noun

1. one of the clergy or people of a diocese.
2. the bishop in charge of a diocese.

diocesan

/ daɪˈɒsɪsən /

adjective

1. of or relating to a diocese

noun

1. the bishop of a diocese

Other Words From

• nondi·oce·san adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of diocesan¹

1400–50; late Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Medieval Latin dioecēsānus. See diocese, -an

Example Sentences

A diocesan spokesman said Wallin had been a “good and compassionate priest.”

From The Daily Beast

Pass in front of the Diocesan College, the roof of which was badly damaged by shell-fire.

From Project Gutenberg

There had been the same outside diocesan civility between even the palace and Plumstead.

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During the Bishop's episcopate, which lasted from 1871 to 1883, great progress was made in every department of diocesan work.

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For that end she asked for dispensation from enclosure, choir duty, the religious habit and also freedom from diocesan control.

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The diocesan prelates appoint their outside vicars for those territories which are in charge of the orders.

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Related Words

• administrator
• cleric
• director
• patriarch
• pontiff
• pope
• prelate
• priest