Word Meanings - ARCHDIOCESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The diocese of an archbishop.

Related words: (words related to ARCHDIOCESE)

• DIOCESE
  The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
• ARCHBISHOP
  A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
• ARCHBISHOPRIC
  The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
• DIOCESENER
  One who belongs to a diocese. Bacon.
• ARCHDIOCESE
  The diocese of an archbishop.
• UNDIOCESED
  Unprovided with a diocese; having no diocese. Milton.