diocese

See also: diocèse

English

Alternative forms

diœcese (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English diocise, 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/, /-siz/
Rhymes: -aɪəsɪs
Rhymes: -aɪəsiz

Noun

diocese (plural dioceses)

Administrative division of the later Roman Empire, starting with the tetrarchy.
(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
Irish: deoise f
Polish: diecezja (pl) f
Romanian: dioceză (ro) f

region administered by a bishop

Arabic: أَبْرَشِيَّة‎ f (ʾabrašiyya)
Armenian: թեմ (hy) (tʿem)
Azerbaijani: yeparxiya
Belarusian: епа́рхія f (jepárxija), дыяцэ́зія f (dyjacézija)
Bulgarian: епа́рхия (bg) f (epárhija)
Catalan: diòcesi (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 教區／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), dioses (id)
Irish: deoise f
Italian: diocesi (it) f
Japanese: 教区 (きょうく, kyōku)
Korean: 교구(敎區) (ko) (gyogu)
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)
Udi: тем (tem)
Ukrainian: єпа́рхія (uk) f (jepárxija), діоце́з m (diocéz), дієце́зія f (dijecézija)
Vietnamese: giáo phận, giáo khu (教區)
Welsh: esgobaeth, esgobaethau pl

References

diocese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

diocese f (plural dioceses)

(religion) diocese (region administered by a bishop)
Synonym: sé