diocese
noun
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Bobby Caina Calvan And Ashraf Khalil, Chron, 23 Aug. 2022 Weakland had not lived in the United States in a decade, and had no understanding of how a diocese or chancery office worked. Annysa Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022 Police began investigating the diocese came after Alvarez objected to the closure of Catholic radio stations in the area. Marlon Sorto And Caitlin Hu, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022 Prosecutors are also looking at how the diocese has been handling reports of abuse. BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022 The diocese then received a second allegation from an attorney representing another woman. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022 The diocese sought to have the suit dismissed based on charitable immunity and the doctrine of church autonomy, derived from the First Amendment. Fox News, 28 July 2022 The jurisdiction chose Baltimore, Rentel said, in part because the city is located within the Diocese of Washington, D.C., the diocese of which Metropolitan Tikhon is archbishop. Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2022 His undertakings ranged from regional efforts to improve church schools to an international mission to reckon with the Virginia diocese’s historical role in the slave trade. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2022 See More Word History
Middle English diocise, dyoces, borrowed from Anglo-French diocise, dyocés, borrowed from Late Latin diocēsis, dioecēsis "administrative district, province, group of provinces (in the later Roman Empire), jurisdiction of a bishop" (Latin, "administrative district"), borrowed from Late Greek dioíkēsis "administration, control, ordering, civil or ecclesiastical group of provinces, jurisdiction of a bishop," going back to Greek, "management, administration," from dioikē-, variant stem of dioikéō, dioikeîn "to control, manage, look after" (from di- di- + oikeîn "to live, have one's home, order, govern," derivative of oîkos "house, home") + -sis -sis — more at vicinity
Note: In early Modern English diocise, passed on from Middle English, and then competed unsuccessfully with the Latin/French-influenced forms diocess and diocese. The variant diocess was predominant in the eighteenth century and is the only form entered in Samuel Johnson's dictionary (1755). The situation had changed, at least in the U.S., by the early nineteenth century: Noah Webster, in his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), enters only diocese, and regards diocess as "a very erroneous orthography."
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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diocese
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