diocesan
Use Diocesan in a sentence
ə adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a diocese.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | of or relating to a diocese |
| —n | |
| 2. | the bishop of a diocese |
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Example sentences
Above all, the charter may come to nought if the bishops fail to enforce it at diocesan level.
Nor are the individual parishes and other members of the diocesan family named as defendants.
But in terms of his clerical status, he was an ordinary diocesan cleric.
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