How to Use diocese in a Sentence

diocese

noun
Definition of diocesenext
Synonyms for diocesenext
  • The Post approached other priests in the diocese about the case.
    — Alain Uaykani, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • That project fell through, and the diocese bought the property in 2020.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The claims of abuse were made against 451 members of the state's six Catholic dioceses.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 23 May 2023
  • Have the Maryland diocese and the church learned the right lessons from the Heather Cook debacle?
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Haight was ordained in 1976 and spent the rest of his career in the Albany diocese.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2023
  • And a spokeswoman for the diocese has declined to comment.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • This from a guy who refused to meet with survivors who as children were raped by a priest in the diocese.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The synagogue was sold to the diocese in the 1950s because there were very few Jewish people in the region.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Plishka argued the relics, which contained the bones of two of the church’s holy bishops, were personal gifts to him and not the diocese.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The diocese did so but did not disclose where the priests were relocated.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the Catholic dioceses in those areas echoed Pittsburgh’s meat ban.
    — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • That is more even than the number of Catholics in a diocese that will now be lead by a bishop more in line with Francis’ vision.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Multiple victims came forward in the wake of Annie’s Law to sue the diocese.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Limited free parking in church lot, and at diocese lot across the alley.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The diocese announced the Pope's approval earlier this month.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The diocese tried — and failed — to hold The Courier Journal in contempt for publishing Yetter's story on the coverup.
    — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The diocese has now received more than 1,300 court notices on behalf of migrants.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan and Ashraf Khalil, Chron, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Priests who abused children were often known to the diocese, yet little was done to stop them, according to the report.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In 2004, six sisters took up the diocese on its offer and relocated to New York.
    — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Weakland had not lived in the United States in a decade, and had no understanding of how a diocese or chancery office worked.
    — Annysa Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The diocese said the thief or thieves cut through a metal protective casing and made off with a tabernacle dating to the church’s opening in the 1890s.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • The diocese did not respond to a request for comment on Saturday night.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Do, a lay leader and head of the diocese’s Vietnamese committee, fled Vietnam as a teenager in 1975.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
  • The two-story mansion, completed in 1917, has been used as offices for the diocese since the Kerr donation.
    — oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The diocese did not respond to a request for comment Saturday night.
    — Elizabeth Dias, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland.
    — Lea Skene, Brian Witte and Sarah Brumfield, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • An attorney and a spokesperson for the diocese both declined comment.
    — David Sharp, ajc, 9 June 2023
  • McGill was assigned to a number of locations across the Dallas-Fort Worth area after joining the diocese in 1954.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • As for the church in Brooklyn, the diocese said a more thorough investigation will be made into the approval process in the coming weeks.
    — Stefano Montali, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The diocese did not respond to multiple requests for comment last week.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023

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