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Example sentences for "diocese"

Lexicographically close words:
dint; dinted; dints; diocesan; diocesans; dioceses; diocess; dioecesi; dioecious; dioptric
  1. Let us each keep our own counsel, and I will defend, for nothing, every case to which a priest of this diocese may be a party.

  2. It is needless to add that in consequence of Madame de Watteville's close intimacy with the Archbishop, the three or four clever or remarkable Abbes of the diocese who were not averse to good feeding were very much at home at her house.

  3. The portrait sketched by the cleverest of the Vicars-General of the diocese had all the greater charm for Rosalie because there was a romance behind it.

  4. But at least up to the year 1247 he submitted patiently to papal encroachments, contenting himself with the protection (by a special papal privilege) of his own diocese from alien clerks.

  5. In 1253, upon being commanded to provide in his own diocese for a papal nephew, he wrote a letter of expostulation and refusal, not to the pope himself but to the commissioner, Master Innocent, through whom he received the mandate.

  6. Deventer in the diocese of Utrecht, where his father held a good civic position.

  7. In 1379, having received ordination as a deacon, he became missionary preacher throughout the diocese of Utrecht.

  8. He is not to be confounded with Smaragdus, abbot in the diocese of Verdun, author of a commentary on the rules of St. Bennet.

  9. The almost entire extirpation of idolatry in the diocese of Rennes was the fruit of our saint's zeal.

  10. He is titular saint of two parish churches in the diocese of St. Paul of Leon, &c.

  11. Lanfranc even commissioned him to perform the visitation of the diocese of Chester for himself.

  12. Out of devotion to St. Benignus, he desired to be buried near that saint's tomb at Dijon, which town was then in the diocese of Langres, and had often been the place of his residence.

  13. MARO made choice of a solitary abode on a mountain in the diocese of Syria and near that city, where, out of a spirit of mortification, he lived for the most part in the open air.

  14. The commissaries usually are bishops, and the bishop of the diocese where the proposed is buried is usually one of them; but laymen are never employed.

  15. The Saturday after Michael's arrival, the devoted bishop of the diocese visited the institution, and heard the confessions of the Catholic members.

  16. The diocese of Sabina was consequently withdrawn from his charges and confided to an administrator ad interim, until other provisions should be made in regard to it.

  17. The charge of the diocese was not restored to him; time was required for that.

  18. The Ordo of the diocese of Tarbes for 1858, Feb.

  19. Baltimore: General Catechism of the Christian Doctrine; for the Use of the Catholics of the Diocese of Savannah and Vicariate Apostolic of Florida.

  20. Simor informed us that the faithful of his diocese number a million of souls, comprising three distinct nationalities, Hungarians, Sclaves, and Germans, who speak as many distinct languages.

  21. Much against his will, and only after repeated injunctions from the pope, he was forced to accept the charge of the diocese of Saluzzo.

  22. Such was the field of the priest who officially reported each year to the convention of the diocese of New York as "Rector of the churches in Otsego county.

  23. The first bishop of the diocese of New York, the Rt.

  24. In 1148 he resided at Moutiers la Celle in the diocese of Troyes, with his friend Peter of Celle.

  25. Fénelon was banished to his diocese of Cambrai and deprived of his position of preceptor to the royal children, showing that he was in complete disgrace and warning all time-servers to abandon him.

  26. Podestà, however, tells us that in his time, in the diocese of Naples, it was reserved to the bishop.

  27. Whatever might be the particular privileges of Patriarchs and Metropolitans, as a general rule, no one Bishop had direct jurisdiction in the diocese of another.

  28. Footnote 30: The name of Villehardouin was taken from a village and castle in the diocese of Troyes, near the River Aube, between Bar and Arcis.

  29. Their bishops might argue, that the supreme jurisdiction, which they exercised over kings and nations, more especially embraced the city and diocese of the prince of the apostles.

  30. His monastery, of the Cistercian order, was situate in the diocese of Basil.

  31. The care of that diocese was less important than the government of the universal church; nor could the popes delight in a city in which their authority was always opposed, and their person was often endangered.

  32. The diocese of Manchester lies within the county of Lancaster, but does not embrace the whole county, part of which forms the see of Liverpool, while a small part of it belongs to that of Carlisle.

  33. Up to 1541 Manchester belonged to the diocese of Lichfield, but Henry VIII.

  34. The diocese of Manchester has but a short history, as it has had an independent existence for little more than half a century.

  35. In 1296 he was promoted to the Bishopric of Lichfield, to which diocese Manchester then belonged.

  36. Chester, by taking the archdeaconry of Chester from the diocese of Lichfield, and the archdeaconry of Richmond from that of York.

  37. When the diocese of Manchester was formed out of that of Chester in 1847, the warden was raised to the higher rank of Dean, and hence Dr.

  38. In 1847 the new see of Manchester was formed from the diocese of Chester.

  39. In 1836 the archdeaconry of Richmond was assigned to the new see of Ripon, and the part of Lancashire known as Furness, together with these parts of Westmorland and Cumberland above mentioned, were added to the diocese of Carlisle.

  40. He won all hearts by opening to them his own, and so administered this great Diocese as to prove yet once more that the people know the voice of a good shepherd and will follow where he leads.

  41. Richard penetrated on foot to the uttermost corners of his diocese to see that all was well.

  42. Citeaux dates from Saint Robert, Abbe de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098.

  43. He refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor in his diocese during the Hundred Days.

  44. The larger the diocese of the patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite.

  45. To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the diocese .

  46. Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, administered the diocese of Lyons.

  47. In every diocese in Ireland, with scarcely an exception, there is now a stately cathedral to perpetuate the renown of the patron saint of that diocese, and even parish churches have been built not unworthy to be the churches of an ancient see.

  48. Bishop Ubite reigned over the diocese until April, 1525, and then, in circumstances which are obscure and for reasons not clearly apparent, took the extraordinary step of resigning his see.

  49. Bishop De Mesa reigned over the diocese for about three years, and then was succeeded by Juan de Ubite, concerning whom the records are much more detailed and explicit.

  50. He took charge of the diocese on the sixth of August and continued with greater success than Governor Salamanca in the moralization of the community.

  51. Thus the diocese came under the wise spiritual guidance of the Canon of Avila, D.

  52. New France was not yet organized as a diocese and could not be so organized until the Pope and the King should agree upon the exact status of the Church in the French colonial dominions.

  53. From his first arrival in Canada his was Bishop Laval, but without a diocese over which he could actually hold sway.

  54. The diocese of Quebec was endowed with the revenues of three French abbeys.

  55. He was a native of County Londonderry, and made his ecclesiastical studies in the Missionary College of All Hallows, Dublin, where he was ordained in 1876 for the diocese of Nashville.

  56. Becker, Bishop of the diocese of Wilmington, Del.

  57. There is not a diocese in the Union which has not profited by sheriff's sales of Protestant educational property.

  58. Father de Segrave, who was the last member of the branch of the old Irish family of the Segraves of Cabra, near Dublin, was cure of Nemours and canon of Sens in the diocese of Meaux.

  59. And when the religious orders of my diocese asked me what they were to do, could I give them any other reply than the following: ‘Resist the law!

  60. The management of the diocese fills up every moment of his time.

  61. In this diocese there are authorized and unauthorized communities, some communities dedicated to works of charity among the poor, the aged, and the orphan, and some whose sole aim and object is a life of spiritual contemplation.

  62. This question, we must allow, is peculiarly important in a diocese like Tourcoing, which, if I may say so, is plastered with all kinds of religious institutions.

  63. I would willingly see uncertainty and division among the communities of my diocese if by so doing I could ensure the peace of the Church as a whole.

  64. As a matter of fact, I find that the religious in the diocese of Tourcoing are placed in such different positions with regard to rates and taxes that universality of action is thereby rendered exceedingly difficult.

  65. Madame de Bonmont gazed with sympathetic eyes at the Abbé, who continued: “In the diocese to which I belong we have started clubs, where the soldiers can read good books as they smoke their cigars.

  66. The Abbé declared that the care of his flock would be sufficient to occupy him, and that, moreover, the diocese of Tourcoing was one of the oldest and most important in Northern France.

  67. He ruled his diocese with a gentle hand, in no way meddled with the Jansenists; he left all untouched.

  68. He was so outraged that he would not see the Abbe, retired into his diocese to hide his shame, and remained there a long time.

  69. In 1458 the diocese was placed under York.

  70. The two most important events in the history of the medieval Manx Church were the formation of the diocese of Sodor (q.

  71. I press them all over the Diocese where it is practicable, but at Caxton I wd.

  72. There is a Protestant cathedral church, the diocese of which was united with Dublin in 1846.

  73. When elected, Ketteler refused to allow the students of theology in his diocese to attend lectures at Giessen, and ultimately founded an opposition seminary in the diocese of Mainz itself.

  74. The principal buildings are the Roman Catholic cathedral and bishop's palace of the diocese of Kerry, designed by A.

  75. Kensington is a suffragan bishopric in the diocese of London.

  76. Kent is mainly in the diocese of Canterbury, but has parts in those of Rochester, Southwark and Chichester.

  77. The county is in the Protestant diocese of Ossory and the Roman Catholic dioceses of Ossory and Kildare and Leighlin.

  78. In 1835 the diocese of Ferns and Leighlin was united to it.

  79. The county is in the Protestant diocese of Limerick and the Roman Catholic dioceses of Kerry and Limerick.

  80. The county is in the Protestant diocese of Dublin and the Roman Catholic dioceses of Dublin and of Kildare and Leighlin.


  81. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diocese" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    archbishopric; bailiwick; bishopric; borough; canton; city; commune; conference; county; diocese; district; duchy; electorate; government; hamlet; hundred; magistracy; metropolis; parish; precinct; principality; province; region; riding; see; shire; stake; state; synod; territory; town; township; village; ward