Examples from literature

• He was ordained by the bishop of the diocese as soon after as possible. 
• I will resign the diocese. 
• It was only very gradually that these dioceses acquired legislative independence and a determinate organization. 
• Nine-tenths of the clergy in the diocese would be guided by him in any matter of clerical conduct which might come before him. 
• There were religious disputes in the diocese too, and they shook me.