What is "diocesan"

Usage examples of "diocesan".

It was an odd choice, Lionel reflected, for a diocesan secretary to have made.

If others became so too, if the clergy of Chester denounced the heresy of their diocesan, they would be doing their duty, and relieving themselves of the share which they otherwise have in any possible defection of their brethren.

Under the tsarist regime he had worked at the diocesan convent which had now been taken over by the Party School.

To me it seemed that the Communists had already been in the town for a long time, that the red flag on the dome of the diocesan convent had been hanging there since winter, and that Polevoi had been living with us even longer.

Sasha sang badly, in a bleating tone, not at all as the Red Army men stationed at the diocesan convent sang that song.

To everyone else, my father included, what mattered in everything, from Diocesan Meetings to Patriarchs Balls, was just what Delane seemed so heedless of: the standing of the people who made up the committee or headed the movement.

God has enlightened him, and he will grant me support out of the diocesan moneybags, to keep me from going to the bottom.

They work within their own structure, parallel to our own diocesan work.

The Gold Room at 451 Madison became the conference chamber for the Diocesan Consultors.

Desecration aside, since Dunn was a diocesan priest free to keep any money he earned, he certainly was well-heeled.

Inquisitors, the Diocesans also wish to be relieved of this responsibility, and to leave the punishment of witches to the secular Courts, such a claim could be made good by the following arguments.

That this is not to say that the Diocesans also cannot proceed to a definite sentence against witches, in accordance with those ancient laws, as has been said.

More than this, even when this decision does not seem enough to warrant the exemption of us Inquisitors from the duty of trying witches, still we are unwilling to consider that we are legally compelled to perform such duties ourselves, since we can depute the Diocesans to our office, at least in respect of arriving at a judgement.

Dux to the Comes, I do not think we can, with the Notitia before us, assert that the Provincial Duces were regularly subordinated to the Diocesan Comes, as the Provincial Consulares were to the Diocesan Vicarius.

It was not in the nature of the Counts of Poitou to tolerate in their provinces prelates who seemed likely to wander from their diocesan concerns into secular affairs, or offer correction to the ducal house Count Guillaume, whose talent for broilsomeness was unsurpassed by that of any of his predecessors, had opposed with violence the election of certain bishops in his domains whom he suspected of obstructing his own freehearted enterprise.