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How to use diocese in a sentence

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If the church refuses to pay, it risks being disestablished from the diocese.
In my diocese I get an average of 10 calls a week from my clergy seeking my approval for them to marry divorcees.
The retired priest is one of a team of 12 exorcists in the diocese called out to deal with haunted buildings and occult disturbances.
And it was in York that he established a bishopric, probably because that had been the centre of the old Romano-British diocese.
He is qualified for appointment as chancellor of the diocese and has satisfied the bishop that he is a communicant.
His collaborator, the Rev. John Sanders, was an Indian clergyman in Bishop Horden's diocese.
Each diocese was then divided into parishes, with each parish containing just one church.
The current bishop still remained committed to the project, but the synod of the diocese voted against continuing construction.
The bishop of my own diocese acknowledged as much in his pastoral letter on the subject.
The books were then distributed among subject teachers in four boarding schools in a diocese the area of about three English counties.
Before Ruiz retired in 2000, the Vatican placed a bishop coadjutor in his diocese.
Mr Fielding is director of education in the diocese of Grahamstown and archdeacon of Albany.
Critics of the plans claimed the bishop should have shut other churches in the diocese if he wanted to save money.
It is located in the diocese of Lucknow, one of 27 dioceses in the Church of North India.
He had been due to appear before the Consistory Court of the diocese of Ripon and Leeds, opening in Leeds on Monday.
The diocese continues to insist that there never was a plan to remove the screen and says it was only one embryonic idea among others.
The individual who wishes to resign his duties as a priest normally asks his diocese for a leave.
In 1777 Maria Theresa secured the erection of a diocese for the Uniat Greeks, with the Eastern Rite and the Old Slavonic Liturgy.
The 150-strong choir is made up of choristers from parish choirs from throughout the diocese.
It is in the east of the diocese and borders Kruger National Park, which is the biggest wildlife park in the world.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In Russia, an eparchy is the diocese or arch-diocese of a bishop or archbishop of the Greek Church.
It is curious to note that in 1374 the church of Minto belonged to the diocese of Lincoln.
After the third century, the flamen held the rank in the city which was later that of the bishop in the diocese.
Here was a young man, from Heaven knows where, bent on entering the diocese.
From this it would seem that heresy and unorthodoxy had already made its appearance in the diocese.
Well, I 'd not object to the Episcopate if there was some good shooting in the diocese.
He wrote the De jure Meneviensis ecclesiae in support of the claims of his diocese.
To-day the diocese is still under the parent jurisdiction of Bordeaux, and the see comprises the department of Lot-et-Garonne.
Gwent, the appellation of the district in Wales inhabited by the Silures, comprised the diocese of Landav.
He found but few priests in the whole diocese, four of them in and about ciudad real.
Copernicus was Canon of the church of Frauenburg in the diocese of Ermeland.
Petrarch saw the apparition of the bishop of his diocese at the moment of death.
The postulator, who is the mandatory of a diocese or ecclesiastical commonalty, is the solicitor.
Mr. Baskerville is very highly esteemed by the bishop of the diocese, he said.
His diocese was large, comprising not only Fyn but a large number of smaller islands besides.
In support of his suzerain the Viscount Hugues had been devastating the diocese.
He promoted letters in his archiepiscopal diocese of Cologne.
This was a Benedictine abbey of great repute in the diocese of Rouen.
The event coincided with a visit from the suffragan bishop of the Arctic diocese, Darren McCartney, who is based in Iqaluit.
The diocese of sens included Fontainebleau, where the court was then held.
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