Diocesan vs Eparchial - What's the difference?
diocesan | eparchial |
Pertaining to a diocese.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 378:
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! ’
As adjectives the difference between diocesan and eparchial
is that diocesan is pertaining to a diocese while eparchial is of or pertaining to an eparchy.As a noun diocesan
is the bishop of a diocese.diocesan
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Adjective
(-)- Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.
