0 an area controlled by a bishop
1 (in the Roman Catholic Church) the area that is under the control of a bishop (= priest of high rank)
He was ordained by the bishop of the diocese as soon after as possible.
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.
Extant accounts for these five dioceses do indeed disclose little about the position of the table.
A dislocation occurred by the early sixteenth century, however, for penance in the market place seems to have already declined in some dioceses.
There is therefore much to recommend this book as a fine study of a diocese's monasticism in a time of expansion.
