(a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
(n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
(n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact is that the vast majority of our petitioning parishes are in the Cleveland archdeaconry and so the see of Whitby is the obvious choice for such episcopal provision where the diocesan bishop is an outspoken advocate of women's ministry."
(2) For the first time in the church's history, the new archbishop was installed on his diocesan throne by a woman, the Venerable Sheila Watson, archdeacon of Canterbury.
(3) The reviewer would be required to have a "knowledge of, and commitment to, the Church of England", but would not have diocesan responsibilities.
(4) The Rt Rev Gene Robinson, of New Hampshire, revealed his plans yesterday, at an annual diocesan meeting.
(5) Faull has been the chaplain of an Oxbridge college, run two cathedrals, sat on some of the church's most important committees – but she remains a woman, and cannot until December at the earliest be named as a diocesan bishop.
(6) As a suffragan bishop, she will not be eligible to sit in the House of Lords – an honour reserved for only the most senior 26 of the church’s 43 diocesan bishops.
(7) He and his fellow Old Etonian Cameron have also arranged for legislation which will allow female diocesan bishops to be fast-tracked into the House of Lords, without waiting their turn to be among the 26 longest serving who have places there.
(8) For services to the Church of England particularly the Preservation of the Built Heritage of Churches through the Diocesan Advisory Committee in Lancashire.
(9) I thank you for this welcome by the diocesan community of Rome to its bishop.
(10) The 71 suffragan bishops are chosen directly by their diocesan bishops, without the months of committee deliberation required in other cases – allowing the new bishop to be named just four weeks after the change allowing female bishops.
(11) Lawyers for the trustees of Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust had appealed against a decision in the court of appeal that they had a duty to compensate a young girl for alleged beatings inflicted by a nun and sexual abuse perpetrated by a priest as long ago as the 1970s – if the facts of the abuse were established.
(12) ; 8) 11% of the diocesan sample believe there should be no laws on abortion.
(13) As a suffragan bishop, Lane could be appointed without passing through the tangle of committee meetings required to choose a diocesan – one who has their own cathedral and may sit in the House of Lords.
(14) She said: “In 2010, I was privileged to be invited to take part in the York diocesan clergy conference, where I got a profound sense of a diocese with faith and hope.
(15) Knowles was the diocesan bishop of Sodor and Man, and his unease before the cameras came through.
(16) Prof Sean Hand, of Warwick’s school of modern languages and cultures, said: “We have a strong offer for languages.” Gender gap in university admissions rises to record level Read more Ian Bauckham, headteacher of Bennett Memorial Diocesan school in Tunbridge Wells, said the number of applications for European modern foreign language (MFL) courses fell by nearly 20% between 2010 and 2014.
(17) She said: “As far as I am concerned, by Tuesday any bishop can pick up the phone to a woman and say: ‘I would like you to be my next suffragan.’ I don’t see the problem with a quick appointment of a [female] suffragan but of course it would be exciting if the first was a diocesan.
(18) Ian Bauckham, president of the ASCL, and head of Bennett Memorial Diocesan school in Tunbridge Wells, says the draft protocol reflects the pressure headteachers are now under all over the country.
(19) He will be led to the diocesan throne by the Venerable Sheila Watson, the archdeacon of Canterbury.
(20) She served as diocesan director of ordinands, also in Durham diocese, for two years and then nationally as part of the springboard team for four years.