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Recent Examples of diocesan
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
By sitting in this throne, the archbishop claims the role of diocesan bishop of Canterbury, the chief pastor of the local diocese.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
As was typical of the national pattern in the United States, the diocesan bishops and local clergy in Pittsburgh were dominated by the Irish.
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Paula Kane,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
The attackers entered the diocesan health center late Friday night, killing patients in their beds and setting the facility ablaze.
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Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
17 Nov. 2025
Forsyth said diocesan officials will continue to talk to church members to determine what needs to be done to reopen.
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Dan Horn,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Nov. 2025
Johnston wrote that the Bright Futures Fund was brought into the diocesan accounting system and was under the regular oversight of its finance office.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
6 Nov. 2025
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
Local Catholics attended Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation midday April 21 that Rev. John Hammond presided over, and Spalding will be the celebrant at an official diocesan Mass.
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Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CBS News,
23 Sep. 2019
Adjective
Overall, diocesan officials said 1,059 people are expected to enter the Catholic Church in the Chicago diocese this year, up from 696 in 2025, a 52% increase.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
By sitting in this throne, the archbishop claims the role of diocesan bishop of Canterbury, the chief pastor of the local diocese.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
As was typical of the national pattern in the United States, the diocesan bishops and local clergy in Pittsburgh were dominated by the Irish.
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Paula Kane,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
The attackers entered the diocesan health center late Friday night, killing patients in their beds and setting the facility ablaze.
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Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
17 Nov. 2025
Forsyth said diocesan officials will continue to talk to church members to determine what needs to be done to reopen.
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Dan Horn,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Nov. 2025
Johnston wrote that the Bright Futures Fund was brought into the diocesan accounting system and was under the regular oversight of its finance office.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
The first is the strikingly Gothic diocesan throne, which sits in the cathedral choir and dates from the Victorian era.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
Local Catholics attended Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation midday April 21 that Rev. John Hammond presided over, and Spalding will be the celebrant at an official diocesan Mass.
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Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CBS News,
23 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diocesan
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After returning to the United States, Novakovic attended an Episcopal boarding school in San Antonio, Texas.
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On New Year’s Eve in 1996, Christou followed Deadbeat with a club at a former Episcopal church that was built in 1865.
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The ritual confers the Holy Spirit from one bishop to another and recalls Christ’s gesture to his apostles.
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Under the church’s in-house canon law, consecrating a bishop without papal consent incurs an automatic excommunication for both the people administering the consecration and the bishops receiving it.
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The story unfolds amid the frenzy surrounding an impending papal visit.
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Not city officials or the Georgia Department of Transportation, but a mixture of FIFA, broadcasters and maybe the papal conclave.
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William Warham, the archbishop of Canterbury, called for more copies to be bought up and burned.
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The diocese's parishes, schools, and other entities are not included in the filing and their operation should not be affected, the archbishop said.
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On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II set out from Rome on an apostolic journey, as papal trips away from the Vatican are called.
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The leader of the Roman Catholic Church directed his remarks to university students at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, during an 11-day apostolic journey in Africa.
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The American pope has prioritized church unity and healing tensions with traditionalists that worsened during the Pope Francis pontificate.
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In Catholic teaching, the link, or communion, between bishops and the pope is a cornerstone of the church’s unity.
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Leo opened his visit to Pompeii by meeting with sick and disabled people who are cared for by a charity center affiliated with the sanctuary, which Leo’s namesake, Pope Leo XIII, declared a pontifical basilica in 1901.
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That public spat has overshadowed his pontifical tour of four African countries, which ended Thursday with a Mass for thousands of people in Malabo, the former capital of Equatorial Guinea.
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The group was founded in 1970 in Switzerland by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a French prelate, but five years later was officially suppressed by the Bishop of Fribourg.
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In roughly 33 hours over the course of two days, the diverse group of international prelates elected Prevost on the fourth ballot.
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