diocesans

The sum, then, of this doughty argument for the apostolical institution of metropolitans (that none might ever more dare to call diocesans into question hereafter) is this: Paul, who was converted about the third or fourth year of Caligula, five or six years after the ascension of Christ, having with great success for three years preached the gospel, went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, upon the persecution raised against him at Damascus, chap. ix.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

The state-run church does not recognize the Holy See's authority to approve new diocesans.

Rome's Rebuke 2010

Bishops of Kansas 4 diocesans; 2006 statement reissued 15 Aug 2008

So what happens now? Dymphna 2008

Bishops of Pennsylvania 7 diocesans, 6 auxiliaries; 10 Oct

So what happens now? Dymphna 2008

Bishops of New York State 8 diocesans, 11 auxiliaries; 1 Oct

So what happens now? Dymphna 2008

Bishops of Florida 7 diocesans, 2 auxiliaries; 15 Sep

So what happens now? Dymphna 2008

Those invited will include stipendiary suffragan and stipendiary assistant bishops, as well as diocesans.

Advent Letter to Primates and Moderators of the United Churches 2005

Those invited will include stipendiary suffragan and stipendiary assistant bishops, as well as diocesans.

Text of the Advent Letter sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Moderators of the United Churches 2005

Now, this second answer is, that the elders or presbyters here mentioned were properly those whom he calls bishops, diocesans, — men of a third rank and order, above deacons and presbyters in the church administrations and government; and for those who are properly called presbyters, there were then none in the church.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

The only demand for scribes and secretaries was created by the Church herself, whose tenuous hierarchic web was stretched across the continent (and occasionally to far-distant shores, although the diocesans abroad were virtually autonomous rulers, subject to the Holy See in theory but seldom in practice, being cut off from New Rome less by schism than by oceans not often crossed) and could be held together only by a communication network.

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959