Probably the intention was that Wilfrid should keep the larger part of Deira, with his see at York, and that three new dioceses should be formed.
Ten members are appointed for the diocese of London, six for each of the dioceses of Winchester, Rochester, Lichfield and Worcester; and four for each of the remaining dioceses.
His vicar-general, Sir Nathaniel Brent, went through the dioceses of his province, noting every dilapidation and every irregularity.
Bishops, can on their side rule and lord it in their dioceses as upper servants in the name of the Church or the Pope, so far as their master does not interfere to stop them, while all others are mere slaves and nothing more.
The Council, which was meant to reform and thereby to save the Church, was brought to an early consideration of the universal neglect of Bishops to reside in their dioceses and the need for recognising this duty as one of Divine obligation.
The clergy in the dioceses of Opposition Bishops are to be seduced into signing addresses expressing strongly their belief in papal infallibility and desire for its speedy promulgation.
The Bishop declared it to be unseemly to begin with the disciplinary decrees about Bishops and their obligations, because this might raise the suspicion in their dioceses that their recent conduct had given occasion to it.
And 100 Bishops say: "We are nothing but titular Bishops, with no dioceses or flocks; from whom but the Pope do we get our titles?
The Univers is very successful in the business of stirring up the inferior clergy against their bishops in the dioceses of Opposition prelates, and getting them to present addresses in favour of infallibilism.
An inquiry was instituted; and reports were laid before him from all thedioceses of the realm.
On the very eve of troubles, fatal to himself and to his order, the Bishops of several extensive dioceses were able to report to him that not a single dissenter was to be found within their jurisdiction.
By a general rule, the provisors of the respective dioceses are directors of the conciliar seminaries; but that is not the case with the provisor of this archbishopric, who is at present dean of the cathedral.
That division of districts anddioceses shall be made by our Council of the Indias.
You will send in a report on thedioceses which it would be well to strike with this ban.
The custom in France at present, of common law, is that the bishops govern their dioceses without the participation of any chapter.
Thus in England the bishops, while retaining their potestas ordinis in virtue of their consecration as successors of the apostles, came to be regarded not as representing their dioceses in the state, but the state in their dioceses.
Forced on their dioceses by the royal Conge d'elire (q.
But in the Markborough diocese alone we have won over perhaps a fifth of the clergy, and the dioceses all round are moving.
At the Council of Arles (in 314) three British bishops were present, whose very names and dioceses are recorded--viz.
Arezzo and Siena, which dispute was based on the fact that for reasons definitely stated these two dioceses formed an exception to the general rule.
Charlemagne had divided up the Breton dioceses and established in them Frankish bishops.
The extent and boundaries of their respective dioceses had been variously and accidentally decided by the zeal and success of the first missionaries, by the wishes of the people, and by the propagation of the gospel.
Constantius continued his march towards the West, and Gallus fixed his residence at Antioch; from whence, with a delegated authority, he administered the five great dioceses of the eastern praefecture.
Sidenote: Some characteristics] In London itself, in Essex, and in the dioceses of Norwich and Canterbury, many informations were laid.
We have now in all our dioceses nearly a hundred of these parochial schools.
I will tell you a little of the work which I know myself, in my own State of North Carolina, in our two dioceses and our one missionary jurisdiction.
Scholastic patronage in monastic cathedral dioceses was subject to episcopal review.
The dioceses of Utrecht, Bremen, Muenster, and Paderborn stretched in an almost continuous line along the north-west.
There were only three sees--Arras, Tournay, and Utrecht, and their dioceses were far too large to be efficiently administered.
The county comprises parts of the Protestant dioceses of Tuam and of Killaloe; and of the Roman Catholic dioceses of Elphin, Galway, Clonfert and Killaloe.
And let not the bishops go beyond their dioceses for ordination or any other ecclesiastical ministrations, unless they be invited.
And the aforesaid canon concerningdioceses being observed, it is evident that the synod of each province will administer the affairs of that particular province as was decreed at Nicæa.
Few dioceses of Ireland present so uninterrupted a succession of bishops as Achonry in the sixteenth century.
Some of them never had possession of their sees, but dwelt within the nearest strong town, as pensioners on the bounty of the Crown, while the dioceses were administered by native rivals, or tolerated vicars.
Three years later, that decision was made known, and the midland and southern dioceses at once adopted it.
Various dioceses also of the Church exhibited pictures of sacred edifices showing different styles of architecture.
The growth is seen to-day in the threedioceses in the State.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dioceses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
