diocesan

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When the state Justices originally denied the unemployment tax exemption to a diocesan Catholic Charities Bureau and its associated groups, the 4-3 majority called their activities “secular in nature.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

She made history by becoming the first female diocesan bishop and the first female bishop in the House of Lords.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024

In addition to many diocesan assets, the government confiscated the prestigious University of Central America, whose Jesuit leaders had opened the doors to student protestors fleeing police and paramilitary attacks.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2024

Steph Busch, a Protestant who converted to Catholicism when her children were young, was shocked, Busch has said, by the “rundown facilities” of the diocesan schools.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2023

Besides, it was the custom of the Holy See not to appoint to a vacant diocese until it had received the recommendation of the metropolitans and the diocesan clergy.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by