diocesan means Pertaining to a diocese. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.
adj
- Pertaining to a diocese.“Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.”
noun
- The bishop of a diocese.
- An inhabitant of a diocese.“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!’”