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• All of the nine Francis appointed had, like him, substantial experience at the coalface, as heads of large dioceses.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian. From the entry coalface
• Fr Kalathil says that just like there is a demand for Versus Populum in Ernakulam-Angamaly there are strong proponents of Ad Orientem in other dioceses.2022 August 27, Disney Tom, “Altar ego”, in The Times of India. From the entry ad orientem
• Leonti Mroveli, it is assumed, was an ecclesiast, Mroveli being the adjective for the diocese of Ruisi, whose bishop he probably was.2013, Donald Rayfield, The Literature of Georgia: A History, Routledge, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry ecclesiast
• This created a financial collapse of the diocese at a time when very few young men were willing to serve the church.1989, Nathan O[rr] Hatch, “Storming Heaven by the Back Door”, in The Democratization of American Christianity, New Haven, Conn.; London…. From the entry glebe farm
• It was there decreed that the hallowed elements were no longer to be sent as Eulogiae into strange dioceses, at the feast of Easter.1917, William Herbert Freestone, The Sacrament Reserved: A Survey of the Practice of Reserving the Eucharist, with Special Reference to…. From the entry eulogia
• Alternative episcopal oversight breaks this strong link between the local bishop and the geographical diocese; moreover, it undermines the bishop as a symbol of unity for the local church.2018, Christopher Craig Brittain, Andrew McKinnon, The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads: The Crises of a Global Church, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry alternative episcopal oversight
• The three dioceses which were divided into two archdeaconries – St Andrews , Glasgow and Orkney – were divided also into two officialates and elsewhere there were subordinate officialates.1985, Gordon Donaldson, Scottish Church History, page 41. From the entry officialate
• One such center was carried on under the energetic leadership of a Sheng Kung Hui clergyman at Lichwan in the Province of Kiangsi, part of the Anking diocese.1943, Beyond the Eight Horizons, page 49. From the entry Lichwan
• The Viennese diocese is part of the Prefecture of Gaul (which also includes the dioceses of Gaul, Spain, and Britain), which has its seat in Augusta Trevirorum (Trier in Germany).2022, Natale Barca, Roman Aquileia, page 144. From the entry Viennese
• In a letter to Alexander III., asking him to dissolve the abbey of Grestain, the bishop of the diocese, Arnulf, spoke of all kinds of abuses, avarice, quarrelling, murder, profligacy.2013, Philip Schaff, The Christian Church from the 1st to the 20th Century, USA: Delmarva Publications, Inc.. From the entry chronique scandaleuse

Meaning of diocese

1. noun An administrative division of the later Roman Empire, established by the Herodian tetrarchy.
2. noun An ecclesiastical territory administered by a bishop.

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How do you use diocese in a sentence?

Diocese is used as a noun. For example: “All of the nine Francis appointed had, like him, substantial experience at the coalface, as heads of large dioceses.”

What is a short sentence with diocese?

“All of the nine Francis appointed had, like him, substantial experience at the coalface, as heads of large dioceses.”

What does diocese mean?

Diocese means an administrative division of the later Roman Empire, established by the Herodian tetrarchy.