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Deanery vs Diocesan - What's the difference?

deanery | diocesan |

As nouns the difference between deanery and diocesan

is that deanery is the position held by a dean while diocesan is the bishop of a diocese.

As an adjective diocesan is

pertaining to a diocese.

deanery

English

Noun

(deaneries)
  • The position held by a dean.
  • The house in which a dean lives.
  • The group of parishes for which a rural dean has responsibility.

    • Synonyms

    * (position) deanship

    Anagrams

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    diocesan

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to a diocese.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 378:
    • Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bishop of a diocese.
  • An inhabitant of a diocese.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 121:
  • *:The bishop of Chartres indignantly informed the king that his diocesans were dying like flies and eating grass like sheep, and indeed both the king and Fleury got a fright when their coaches were stopped in the Paris countryside by peasants crying out ‘Famine! Bread!’ rather than ‘Vive le Roi! ’