Usually means: Pertaining to a bishop's district.
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  1. diocesan: Merriam-Webster
  2. diocesan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diocesan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diocesan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diocesan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diocesan, diocesan: Wordnik
  7. diocesan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diocesan: Wiktionary
  9. diocesan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diocesan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diocesan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Diocesan, diocesan: Dictionary.com
  13. diocesan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Diocesan (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Diocesan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. diocesan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. diocesan: Rhymezone
  18. Diocesan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. diocesan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. diocesan: FreeDictionary.org
  21. diocesan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. diocesan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. diocesan: Legal dictionary

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  1. diocesan: Encyclopedia

(Note: See diocese as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diocesan)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to a diocese.
▸ noun:  The bishop of a diocese.
▸ noun:  An inhabitant of a diocese.

Similar:
diocesean, diocesal, archdiocesan, denominational, districtual, parochial, deaconal, dicasterial, pontifical, subdiaconal, more...

Opposite:
archdiocesan, metropolitan, patriarchal

Types:
Catholic, Episcopalian, Anglican, Orthodox, more...

Phrases:
diocesan consultors, diocesan chancery, diocesan quota, diocesan quotas, Diocesan Boys' School, more...

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own, new, first, local, venerable, worthy, late, present, inter, former, afraid

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Similar:
diocesean, diocesal, archdiocesan, denominational, districtual, parochial, deaconal, dicasterial, pontifical, subdiaconal, more...

Opposite:
archdiocesan, metropolitan, patriarchal

Types:
Catholic, Episcopalian, Anglican, Orthodox, more...

Phrases:
diocesan consultors, diocesan chancery, diocesan quota, diocesan quotas, Diocesan Boys' School, Diocesan Girls' School, Diocesan bishop, more...

Adjectives:
own, new, first, local, venerable, worthy, late, present, inter, former, afraid

Colors:
    purple,     gold,     white,     green,     red, more...



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