Citations:diœcese

Noun: antiquated spelling of

 * 1813, Robert Mayo, A View of Ancient Geography and Ancient History, John F. Watson; page #117:
 * S YRIA P ROPRIA, constituted by much the greatest part of that diœcese (for so the great departments established before the end of the fourth century were named) called O IRENS  ; which also comprised Palestine, a district of Mesopotamia, the province of Cilicia, and the isle of Cyprus.
 * 1863, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, James Murdock and Henry Soames,Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern (various publishers); Volume I, Book II, century IV, part II, page 253:
 * He sat in the second general council at Constantinople, A. D. 381 ; and in the same year was appointed, by the emperor Theodosius, inspector of the clergy in the diœcese of Asia.
 * 1894, The Official Report of the Church Congress held at Exeter, October, 1894, Adeney & Son; page #136:
 * The same spirit was exhibited by the Asiatic Church in the paschal controversy between Victor and Polycrates at the end of the second century (Euseb., “ H.E.,” v . 24 ); and by the African Church in Cyprian’s contest with Stephen in the third century (Cypr., ep. lv. ad Cornelium), and in the very remarkable case of Apiarius in the fifth century, when a general council of the African “ diœcese,” attended by S. Augustine, angrily desired the Primates of South Italy to refrain from interference, and in the excommunication of Pope Vigilius by the same Church in the sixth century.
 * 1911, Frederick Meyrick, Scriptural and Catholic Truth and Worship, Longmans, Green and Co.; chapter X, pages 81–82:
 * These Councils passed canon after canon forbidding the interference of the bishop of any one diœcese, that is, district or country, with the bishop of any other diœcese. ‘ Bishops outside a diœcese are not to invade the Churches across the borders nor bring confusion into the Churches,’ says the second canon of the Council of Constantinople, ‘  lest,’ says the eighth canon of the Council of Ephesus, ‘ the pride of worldly power be introduced under cover of the priestly function, and by little and little we be deprived of the liberty which our Lord Jesus Christ, the deliverer of all men, has given us by His own blood.’