diocese

See also: diocèse

English

Alternative forms

• diœcese (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French diocese, from Late Latin diocēsis, from Latin dioecēsis (“district under a governor”), from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.ə.sɪs/, /-siːz/

Noun

diocese (plural dioceses)

1. Administrative division of the later Roman Empire, starting with the tetrarchy.
2. (religion) Region administered by a bishop.

Hyponyms

• (religion): archdiocese

Related terms

• archdiocesan
• bishopric
• diocesan
• nullius diœcesis

 

Translations

administrative division of the Roman Empire

• Finnish: diokeesi
• Polish: diecezja (pl) f
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• Romanian: dioceză (ro) f

region administered by a bishop

• Arabic: أَبْرَشِيَّة f (ʔabrašiyya)
• Armenian: թեմ (hy) (tʻem)
• Belarusian: епа́рхія f (jepárxija), дыяцэ́зія f (dyjacézija)
• Bulgarian: епа́рхия (bg) f (epárhija)
• Catalan: diòcesi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教區／教区 (zh) (jiàoqū), 教区 (zh) (jiàoqū)

• Czech: diecéze f
• Danish: bispedømme (da) n, stift n (formal)
• Dutch: bisdom (nl), diocees (nl) n, diocese (nl) f
• Esperanto: episkopujo, diocezo
• Faroese: biskupsdømi n
• Finnish: hiippakunta (fi)
• French: diocèse (fr) m, éparchie (fr) f
• Galician: diocese (gl) f
• German: Diözese (de) f, Bistum (de) n, Eparchie f
• Greek: επισκοπή (el) f (episkopí)
• Greenlandic: biskoppeqarfik
• Hungarian: püspökség (hu)
• Icelandic: biskupsdæmi n
• Ido: diocezo (io)
• Indonesian: keuskupan (id)
• Irish: deoise f
• Italian: diocesi (it) f
• Japanese: 教区 (きょうく, kyōku)
• Korean: 교구 (ko) (gyogu) (敎區 (ko))
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: diecēzē f
• Lithuanian: vyskupija f
• Macedonian: епархија f (eparhija)
• Norman: dgiocèse m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bispedømme n

  Nynorsk: bispedøme n, bispedømme n

• Polish: diecezja (pl) f
• Portuguese: diocese f
• Romanian: dioceză (ro) f
• Russian: епа́рхия (ru) f (jepárxija), диоце́з (ru) m (diocéz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дијецеза f, епархија f

  Roman: dijeceza (sh) f, eparhija (sh) f

• Skolt Sami: aa´rhelkå´dd
• Slovak: diecéza f
• Slovene: dieceza f, škofija (sl) f
• Spanish: diócesis (es) f
• Swahili: dayosisi
• Swedish: stift (sv) n
• Tagalog: diyosesis (tl)
• Turkish: başpiskoposluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: єпа́рхія (uk) f (jepárxija), діоце́з m (diocéz), дієце́зія f (dijecézija)
• Vietnamese: giáo phận, giáo khu (教區)
• Welsh: esgobaeth, esgobaethau pl

See also

• parish

References

• diocese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Noun

diocese f (plural s)

1. (religion) diocese (region administered by a bishop)

Synonyms

• sé