diocesan

Examples from literature

He was ordained by the bishop of the diocese as soon after as possible. 
I will resign the diocese. 
It was only very gradually that these dioceses acquired legislative independence and a determinate organization. 
Nine-tenths of the clergy in the diocese would be guided by him in any matter of clerical conduct which might come before him. 
There were religious disputes in the diocese too, and they shook me. 

diocese | American Dictionary

diocese
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdɑɪ·ə·səs, -ˌsiz, -ˌsis/
(in the Roman Catholic Church) the area that is under the control of a bishop (= priest of high rank)

diocesan

adjective[ not gradable ]us/dɑɪˈɑs·ə·sən, -zən/

Examples of diocese

diocese
Extant accounts for these five dioceses do indeed disclose little about the position of the table.
A dislocation occurred by the early sixteenth century, however, for penance in the market place seems to have already declined in some dioceses.
There is therefore much to recommend this book as a fine study of a diocese's monasticism in a time of expansion.
Also, their strength of purpose can only mean that they were reflecting the disposition of the lower clergy in their dioceses.
Their diocese was too large for them to manage and no organisational substructure had yet been developed.
Magistrates and collectors of revenue are now no longer acquainted with their districts, bishops with their dioceses, or curates with their parishes.
Yet the early decades of the seventeenth century saw a concerted effort by the episcopate to bring religious order to dioceses.
They should bookmark the tables of abbreviations, both that for dioceses and that for common words found truncated in the registers.
It provides an impressive platform from which further studies of the diocese will inevitably ensue.
The study concludes with a survey of the bishop as representative of the ruler within his diocese.
Two of the best articles, for example, demonstrate how crucial the influence of individual bishops could be in shaping the ' tone ' of a diocese.
Researchers, therefore, might be interested in the archdeaconry or diocese either as a jurisdictional unit (excluding peculiars) or as a geographical area (including peculiars).
It includes indices which provide the vernacular names of the dioceses and also the surnames of all the people listed in the volume.
The third and by far the most significant section contains the actual cases, alphabetically arranged by diocese, heard by the rota.
The king wanted to know the exact number of recusants in each diocese.
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