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diocese

/dahy-uh-sis, -seez, -sees/US // ˈdaɪ ə sɪs, -ˌsiz, -ˌsis //UK // (ˈdaɪəsɪs) //

主教区,教区,主管部门,管区

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

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Examples

  • Auxiliary Bishop John Dolan has dubbed the vaccine a “moral obligation” and the diocese has also issued statements supporting vaccination.

  • The court-appointed receiver has filed multiple lawsuits accusing Prospect and the diocese of “omissions and half-truths actionable as fraud,” demanding that they help make the pension whole.

  • Both Prospect and the diocese deny concealing the pension system’s condition.

  • Take the case of Herx v. Diocese of Fort Wayne, an employment discrimination suit in the Seventh Circuit.

  • The local diocese said assistance would be given to the woman and her baby for a few weeks until she decided on her future.

  • Father Taraborelli is a trained exorcist for the Rome diocese, and his work schedule is very busy.

  • His predecessor had just banned three priests in his diocese from public ministry.

  • More than $600,000 has been paid in lawsuits to victims in the Los Angeles diocese.

  • The archbishop of Manila sends to the king (July 30, 1621) an account of ecclesiastical and some other affairs in his diocese.

  • In 1848 there were only seven priests in Birmingham, and but seventy in the whole diocese.

  • Sangley missions of the diocese of the archbishopric of Manila, and the number of souls directed in them.

  • Then he returned to his province, entered the seminary, and became a sub-deacon of the diocese of Nueva Segovia.

  • It is a great country church of very unusual architecture, elevated to the head of a diocese in 1888.