diocesan
dahy o suh suhn
- n a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese
- a belonging to or governing a diocese
- The diocesan debt is a modest $3.
- The changes range from diocesan government to such unusual subjects as the responsibility of individual Catholics to form their own attitudes on the morality of war.
- He's also clear about his role: it is to call people to conversation, not to intervene in diocesan or provincial life--which some people have been asking for.