English

Adjective

diocesan ‎(not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a diocese.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 378:

     Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.

Translations

Noun

diocesan ‎(plural diocesans)

1. The bishop of a diocese.
2. An inhabitant of a diocese.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 121:

     The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi!’