(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.
Diocese
Definition:
(n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other casualties in recent times have been the workers in the Portsmouth and Salford dioceses.
(2) It is a relatively junior role, which will make her an assistant bishop in the diocese of Chester.
(3) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(4) More than 1,300 church members in Osorno, along with 30 priests from the diocese and 51 of Chile’s 120 members of parliament, sent letters to Francis in February urging him to rescind the appointment.
(5) The voice of the survivors is being ignored, the concerns of the people and many clergy in Chile are being ignored, and the safety of children in this diocese is being left in the hands of a bishop about whom there are grave concerns for his commitment to child protection.” Barros was installed as bishop of the southern Chilean diocese of Osorno last weekend amid unprecedented opposition, and scuffles inside the cathedral by protesters who say he is unfit to lead.
(6) The findings revealed that 1) nearly 4 out of 10 priests have reservations about the traditional church teaching on direct abortion; 2) 64% state that the traditional teaching is clear and that they are in complete agreement with it; 3) the younger the priest the less likely he is to agree with the church position; 4) hospital chaplains express more agreement with the traditional teaching than any other job category; 5) the proportions who disagree are highest in the two New York City dioceses, 6) the higher the education of the priest the less likely he is to agree with the traditional position; 7) there is a strong relationship between a priest's position on the tradit ional church teaching and his won political activity related to abortion such as writing to officials protesting the liberalized law, etc.
(7) The day after the budget, I visited a food bank in one of the churches in my diocese.
(8) There was repeated failure to assess the risk he posed to children, to confine him to his abbey, to thoroughly investigate allegations of abuse, to notify the police and social services, and to share information between dioceses and report matters to the appropriate civil and ecclesiastical authorities.” The report also criticised an order of Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Nazareth.
(9) A spokeswoman for the diocese of York declined to comment on North's decision, or to say how much local protest had been voiced over his appointment.
(10) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(11) It is exciting but I hope that in a few years it will be more normal for women to be appointed bishops.” The first diocese vacancy to come up after the canon law is changed will be Southwell and Nottingham, after the Rt Rev Paul Butler was appointed as bishop of Durham.
(12) A bishop in Sicily has banned known mafia criminals from acting as godfathers at baptisms in churches in his diocese.
(13) He added that the Scottish church should abolish at least half of its eight diocese – a throwback to the size and power of the pre-reformation church.
(14) Far from disintegrating, Robinson's own diocese has remained supportive of him.
(15) Kaoma is an Anglican priest from Zambia now living and working in the US with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts due to threats against his life.
(16) Names and surnames of 88,383 consanguineous spouses collected in 16 dioceses of Sicily were analyzed by multivariate analysis to reveal and compare the geographic clusters obtained from both sets of data.
(17) While Vatican spokesmen continue to maintain that Seromba is a victim of malicious slander, the Florence diocese announced this week that it had an open mind as to his culpability.
(18) "The reason for your involuntary separation of employment was based upon on irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church and your relationship – formalized by an act of marriage in Iowa – to a person of the same sex," the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph said in its letter of dismissal.
(19) It is not, of course, only the C of E: last autumn the Catholic diocese of Salford announced it was selling about 60 churches and losing half of its 150 parishes.
(20) Storm clouds are also gathering in Wrexham diocese where the position of fieldworker Maria Pizzoni is under review.