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noun

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Recent Examples of diocesan
Noun
The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan. David Tarrant, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020 In the Catholic Church, this is generally a time of the year when dioceses ask their members to donate to annual bishops’ Lenten appeals, which fund diocesan operations. Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2020 Their database contains many clergy who don’t appear on official diocesan lists and so aren’t in our database. Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2020 The Vatican has been under increasing pressure to cooperate more with law enforcement, and its failure to do so has resulted in unprecedented raids in recent years on diocesan chanceries by police from Belgium to Texas to Chile. Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019 The Vatican has been under increasing pressure to cooperate more with law enforcement, and its failure to do so has resulted in unprecedented raids in recent years on diocesan chanceries by police from Belgium to Texas and Chile. NBC News, 17 Dec. 2019 Insurers have covered a large portion of settlements reached in previous diocesan bankruptcy cases, a 2018 study by Penn State professor Marie Reilly found, with victims receiving an average award of $371,500. CBS News, 23 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diocesan
Adjective
  • The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.
    Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Congregations have been disaffiliating by vote in individual episcopal area conferences, and more than 4,000 congregations have already disaffiliated under the law, including 71 previously in Kentucky.
    Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
Noun
  • The diocese was dominated by clerics who were members of Opus Dei, a very conservative sect of Catholicism, and Prevost, who had to become a Peruvian citizen to become a bishop, was charged with moving it back to the middle.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
  • Among the overnight options in Trinity is Bishop White Manor, an 1830’s manse that was once home to Newfoundland’s Anglican bishop.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • View Comments The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
  • The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.
    CNN.com, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The archbishop’s letter named one of Fitzpayne’s many paramours: Forde, who was rector of a parish church in a village on the Fitzpayne family’s estate in Dorset.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
  • In the weeks ahead of the conclave, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, said in a joint press conference with five other American cardinals on Friday.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Other papal childhood homes have sparked the flourishing of unknown small towns, according to a USA TODAY survey of Leo’s predecessors.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • Such an epic event doesn’t come along every papal conclave.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • In churches around the world, Masses on the June 29 feast day often include a special collection for Peter’s Pence, a fund that underwrites the operations of the central government of the Catholic Church and pays for the pope’s personal acts of charity.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
  • The photo, shared to Instagram by the pope's official account, was part of a carousel of images showing the pontiff alongside worshipers in Vatican City.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Related Articles For the past 40-plus years in the Philippines, Natori’s mother Angelita Cruz has been very close to the nuncios (who act as pontifical ambassadors), the designer said.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
  • The only pontifical name that hasn't been used more than once is Peter, the name of the first pope, though there's no prohibition against doing so.
    Christopher Watson, ABC News, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Francis dramatically reshaped the group of prelates who will soon cast their votes for his successor in front of Michelangelo’s fresco of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
  • However, Panorama magazine maintained that the NSA picked up the prelates’ telephone conversations in the days preceding the conclave, giving them an idea of what might happen before the first vote.
    Time, Time, 7 May 2025

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“Diocesan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diocesan. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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