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# diocese

«diocese» in Mova's school dictionary: **An area with many churches and parishes, looked after by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a diocese, dioceses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) An area with many churches and parishes, looked after by a bishop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#m1)

2) The church community and offices of that area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In church life, Anglican and Catholic churches belong to a diocese; the bishop's main church is called the cathedral. Church schools may belong to a diocese and say «diocesan». Phrases: «the Diocese of…», «diocesan school», «bishop of the diocese».

### examples

- Our parish is part of the diocese of Dublin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#x1)
- The bishop visits every church in his diocese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#x2)
- The cathedral is the main church of the diocese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#x3)
- Our school is a diocesan school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#x4)
- The diocese has more than a hundred parishes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#x5)
- Young people from the whole diocese met for a festival. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/#x6)

### note

Countable; plural dioceses. Pronounced DY-uh-sis. Adjective: diocesan. A parish is smaller (one church area); an archdiocese is a big important one led by an archbishop.

### In the corpora

- [Bishops are senior leaders who look after many churches in an area called a diocese.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diocese» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diocese/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.