diocesan

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On Monday, the Bernabeu will host a meeting between Leo and Madrid's diocesan community.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

My great-uncle Dan was a diocesan priest at St. Charles Borromeo in Drexel Hill, Pa. Dan was a fire-and-brimstone hard-liner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The Boston Archdiocese’s 2003 agreement to pay $85 million to more than 500 victims marked the moment the crisis shifted from isolated diocesan scandals to a nationwide institutional failure.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

But the Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Reverend Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, and the Chelmsford diocesan safeguarding officer Amanda Knight said they "respectfully disagree" with some of the Commission's conclusions.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

It has always appeared to me that there was great wisdom in the views expressed some years since by our present presiding bishop—that every diocesan should have a parochial charge.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.