(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.
Penitentiary
Definition:
(a.) Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
(a.) Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
(a.) Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
(n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
(n.) One who does penance.
(n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
(n.) That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
(n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
(n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
(n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(2) An earlier major exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s work, held inside Alcatraz island penitentiary in the San Francisco bay, featured works made out of the plastic construction toys.
(3) He commented: “I’m talking about my experiences of walking into a penitentiary that I would see in a movie like Shawshank Redemption , because it was an old prison.
(4) Two hundred and seventy-five Canadian Federal Penitentiary inmates from 9 institutions participated in a 3-hour assessment consisting of a structured interview and a batter of self-report tests to determine key social and demographic characteristics; type, frequency, and extent of substance use prior to incarceration; previous treatment for substance abuse; criminal history; and perceived relationship of criminal behavior to substance use.
(5) This was the image of the former News International chief executive mocked up as a Page 3 girl which recently led to a long-time subscriber in a US penitentiary having his copy confiscated on obscenity grounds.
(6) The epidemiologic situation for tuberculosis in the penitentiary-labour establishments at the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs was subjected to a comprehensive analysis with subsequent discussion of the results at a meeting of the staff of the Ministry of Public Health; instruction and plan of measures to be taken have been compiled by both ministries; a permanent board has been instituted for rendering help to medical workers of the penitentiary establishments; all law-protective organs have been involved in tuberculosis control; a specialized institution has been set up with a hospital for 200 beds intended for skilled examination and treatment of patients.
(7) On Wednesday night, 53 prisoners escaped from the Barreto Campelo penitentiary after explosives were used to blow a hole in an outer wall.
(8) Televisa also showed concurrent footage of what it said was the control center meant to be monitoring the prisoners in the Altiplano penitentiary not far from Mexico City.
(9) The subsequent and, in particular, the recent building re-structurations, have radically changed the penitentiary in order to make it more in line with the functions required by the present prison policy.
(10) Officials believe Lockett, who was convicted of shooting a 19-year-old woman and ordering a friend to bury her alive, died of a “massive heart attack” 43 minutes after his execution began Tuesday night at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester.
(11) This was a direct contradiction of one official's promise: "I can say one thing: Alyokhina will attend the parole hearing," a spokesman for the federal penitentiary service told the Russian Legal Information Agency on 12 July.
(12) Subjects were 136 male convicted felons in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
(13) He was born in Hamburg on 21st August 1898 and beheaded in the Plötzensee penitentiary on 13th May 1943.
(14) As a result, the index of tuberculosis morbidity in the republican penitentiary-labour establishments reduced by more than half to promote an improvement of the epidemiologic situation in the republic.
(15) When I got out of the penitentiary (2 ) in 1969, I became a drug counsellor, and dedicated my life to helping other people.
(16) Tuberculosis morbidity in penitentiary-labour establishments (PLE) is scores of times higher than that among the population on the formation of which it has an influence.
(17) Conversely, the Reception Center group scored significantly higher than the Penitentiary group on the primaries, B, C, F, G, N, and Q3.
(18) The present investigation examined lifetime multiple disorders, measured by the DIS, among a representative sample of male penitentiary inmates.
(19) Within 20 seconds of receiving his lethal injection on Jan. 9 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, 38-year-old Michael Lee Wilson said: “I feel my whole body burning.” This statement described “a sensation consistent with receipt of contaminated pentobarbital,” Taylor alleges.
(20) The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of decayed, missing, and filled teeth among federal male prisoners (aged 21-75) in the US Penitentiary.