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Definition of Diocesans
1. diocesan [n] - See also: diocesan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diocesans
Literary usage of Diocesans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... clergy before being permitted to go to Rome to seek absolution from the pope,
such a visit being itself contingent upon the consent of their diocesans. ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"The gifts from your diocesans which you have forwarded to us forced us to admire
their fervent love, but have at the same time occasioned a certain regret ..."
3. Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury by Walter Farquhar Hook (1872)
"diocesans summoned before the Privy Council. — Reception of the Prayer Book.
— The regular clergy advocates of the papal supremacy. ..."
4. The Puritans and Their Principles by Edwin Hall (1847)
"Claims of diocesans to be Vicegerents of Jesus Christ. IT is alleged that the
three orders, Bishop, Priest and Deacon, come in the place of the three orders ..."
5. Theophilus Anglicanus; Or, Manual of Instruction on the Church, and the by Christopher Wordsworth (1886)
"... have the melancholy forebodings of these last words been realized in Germany,
Switzerland, Holland, and elsewhere! CHAPTER XII. OF BISHOPS AS diocesans, ..."
6. "One Faith," Or, Bishop Doane Vs. Bishop M'Ilvaine, on Oxford Theology by Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, Presbyterian, Charles Pettit McIlvaine, George Washington Doane (1843)
"... WHOSE BIRTH-PLACE WAS OUR CITY AND WHOSE FAME IS " IN ALL THE CHURCHES,"
diocesans, BOTH WELL KNOWN IN THIS COMMUNITY ARE ..."
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