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Definition of Dioceses
1. diocese [n] - See also: diocese
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioceses
Literary usage of Dioceses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"Baptism— total (in 86 dioceses aud 7 mission Jurisdictions) . ... teachers (In
36 dioceses and 4 mission Jurisdictions)... Scholars (in 38 dioceses and ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In certain very extensive dioceses the pope appoints a ... In dioceses where
there is a coadjutor bishop with right of succession, the latter, ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1862)
"Supposing, for example, that 20 new dioceses would abstractedly be the best number
to be created, but that only 15 or as many as 25 districts were ready and ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The province of Victoria comprises the dioceses of Ballarat (1875), Bendigo (1902),
... The province of Queensland includes the dioceses of Brisbane (1859), ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"(in 40 dioceses and 7 mission Communicants-Number reported in ... 27535 6845 6924
89944 S8,515 Marriages (In 87 dioceses and 8 mission Jurisdictions) . ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"And greater anomalies will appear if you compare a little the number of the
dioceses with respect to the various provinces of the kingdom. ..."
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