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Diocese

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The territorial extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the circuit of every bishop's jurisdiction.

Co. Litt. 94; 1 Bl. Comm. Ill; 2 Burns, Ecc. Law, 158.