Diocese Synonyms

Diocese Sentence Examples

• Thurstan was generous to the churches of his diocese and was the founder of several religious houses.

• In the interval Chicheley found time to visit his diocese for the first time and be enthroned at St David's on the 11th of May 1411.

• A papal bull having also been obtained, on the 28th of August 1425, the archbishop, in the course of a visitation of Lincoln diocese, executed his letters patent founding the college, dedicating it to the Virgin, St Thomas Becket and St Edward the Confessor, and handed over the buildings to its members, the vicar of Higham Ferrers being made the first master or warden.

• Cloyne was the seat of a Protestant diocese until 1835, when it was united to that of Cork.

• Mainly on account of its strategic position, Diocletian on his reorganization of the empire made Trier the capital not only of Belgica Prima, but of the whole "diocese" of Gaul.