diocese
- an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
Origin of diocese
Examples from the Web for diocese
Contemporary Examples of diocese
Father Taraborelli is a trained exorcist for the Rome diocese, and his work schedule is very busy.
His predecessor had just banned three priests in his diocese from public ministry.
More than $600,000 has been paid in lawsuits to victims in the Los Angeles diocese.
Should Sex-Abuse-Scandal Cardinals Be Allowed to Vote for New Pope?Barbie Latza Nadeau
February 21, 2013
In addition, diocese officials found bizarre sex toys in Wallin's residence, the sources said.
Anyone who crossed the wrong cardinals in Rome risked being sent to oversee the troubled American diocese.
Historical Examples of diocese
Here the clergy of the diocese may come and consult the volumes.
The bishop of the diocese thought it worth while to protest.
A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume IMrs. Humphry Ward
It so happened that the Bishop of Poitiers was in his diocese at the time.
The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, CompleteMadame La Marquise De Montespan
Here was a young man, from Heaven knows where, bent on entering the diocese.
The ChristianHall Caine
Well, I 'd not object to the Episcopate if there was some good shooting in the diocese.
Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II.Charles James Lever
diocese
- the district under the jurisdiction of a bishop
Word Origin for diocese
Word Origin and History for diocese
early 14c., from Old French diocese (13c., Modern French diocèse), from Late Latin diocesis "a governor's jurisdiction," later, "a bishop's jurisdiction," from Greek dioikesis "government, administration; province," originally "economy, housekeeping," from dioikein "control, govern, administer, manage a house," from dia- "thoroughly" (see dia-) + oikos "house" (see villa).