Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The district under an archbishop's jurisdiction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The see or diocese of an archbishop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The diocese of an archbishop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In Christian denominations, the area administered by an
archbishop .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the diocese of an archbishop
Etymologies
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Examples
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Monsignor Giuseppe Ghiberti, president of the Turin archdiocese's commission on the Shroud, has said the Vatican, which owns the cloth, might consider a new round of scientific tests after the public display ends May 23.
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The report names 63 priests "whose abusive behavior was well-documented in archdiocese files and by witnesses who testified" before the grand jury.
09/22/2005 2005
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His official archdiocese is the Darling Downs, but he has been attached to St Mary’s for more than 15 years.
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The archdiocese is the eighth in the U.S. to seek bankruptcy protection since the clergy abuse scandal erupted in 2002 in Boston.
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The archdiocese is the eighth in the U.S. to seek bankruptcy protection since the clergy abuse scandal erupted in 2002 in Boston.
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And of course, Cardinal Mahony has indicated plans to do things like selling off the headquarters of the archdiocese, which is a skyscraper on Wilshire Boulevard.
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McDonagh called archdiocese investigators twice a week to ask what was taking so long, but he received little information.
'I'm A Church Man' 2007
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Documents from O'Sullivan's personnel file, made public in 2002, show that the archdiocese was alerted as early as the 1960s to allegations against him.
08/01/2005 2005
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The disclosure was an early step in an unfolding legal battle over whether the archdiocese is the true owner of parish property, as priest sex-abuse claimants say, or whether the archdiocese merely holds the property in charitable trust for its 124 parishes.
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The archdiocese is the first to file for protection under federal bankruptcy laws, which will require that the church fully disclose its finances and cede authority over its spending to a federal bankruptcy judge.
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