diocesan

Example Sentences

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On Monday, the Bernabeu will host a meeting between Leo and Madrid's diocesan community.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

My great-uncle Dan was a diocesan priest at St. Charles Borromeo in Drexel Hill, Pa. Dan was a fire-and-brimstone hard-liner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The Boston Archdiocese’s 2003 agreement to pay $85 million to more than 500 victims marked the moment the crisis shifted from isolated diocesan scandals to a nationwide institutional failure.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

When the state Justices originally denied the unemployment tax exemption to a diocesan Catholic Charities Bureau and its associated groups, the 4-3 majority called their activities “secular in nature.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

V. That no clerk, forsaking his own bishop, shall wander about, or be anywhere received without commendatory letters from his diocesan.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert