diocesan

From Middle French diocesain.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʌɪˈɒsɪsən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /daɪˈɑsɪsən/

diocesan (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a diocese.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 378:

     Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.

diocesan (plural diocesans)

1. The bishop of a diocese.
2. An inhabitant of a diocese.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 121:

     The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi!’

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