diocese

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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”).

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: диоцез (diocez) — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Catalan: diòcesi — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Finnish: diokeesi — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• French: diocèse — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Galician: diocese — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Irish: deoise — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Italian: diocesi — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Polish: diecezja — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Portuguese: diocese — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Romanian: dioceză — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Spanish: diócesis — administrative division of the Roman Empire
• Arabic: أَبْرَشِيَّة (ʔabrašiyya) — region administered by a bishop
• Armenian: թեմ (tʻem) — region administered by a bishop
• Azerbaijani: yeparxiya — region administered by a bishop
• Basque: elizbarruti — region administered by a bishop
• Belarusian: епа́рхія (jepárxija) — region administered by a bishop
• Belarusian: дыяцэ́зія (dyjacézija) — region administered by a bishop
• Bulgarian: епа́рхия (epárhija) — region administered by a bishop
• Catalan: diòcesi — region administered by a bishop
• Chinese Mandarin: 教區 /教区 (jiàoqū) — region administered by a bishop
• Czech: diecéze — region administered by a bishop
• Danish: bispedømme — region administered by a bishop
• Danish: stift — region administered by a bishop
• Dutch: bisdom — region administered by a bishop
• Dutch: diocees — region administered by a bishop
• Dutch: diocese — region administered by a bishop
• Esperanto: episkopujo — region administered by a bishop
• Esperanto: diocezo — region administered by a bishop
• Estonian: piiskopkond — region administered by a bishop
• Faroese: biskupsdømi — region administered by a bishop
• Finnish: hiippakunta — region administered by a bishop
• French: diocèse — region administered by a bishop
• French: éparchie — region administered by a bishop
• Galician: diocese — region administered by a bishop
• German: Diözese — region administered by a bishop
• German: Bistum — region administered by a bishop
• German: Eparchie — region administered by a bishop
• Greek: επισκοπή (episkopí) — region administered by a bishop
• Greenlandic: biskoppeqarfik — region administered by a bishop
• Hindi: धर्मप्रांत (dharmprānt) — region administered by a bishop
• Hungarian: püspökség — region administered by a bishop
• Icelandic: biskupsdæmi — region administered by a bishop
• Ido: diocezo — region administered by a bishop
• Indonesian: keuskupan — region administered by a bishop
• Indonesian: dioses — region administered by a bishop
• Irish: deoise — region administered by a bishop
• Italian: diocesi — region administered by a bishop
• Japanese: 教区 (kyōku) — region administered by a bishop
• Korean: 교구 (gyogu) — region administered by a bishop
• Latvian: diecēzē — region administered by a bishop
• Lithuanian: vyskupija — region administered by a bishop
• Macedonian: епархија (eparhija) — region administered by a bishop
• Middle English: diocise — region administered by a bishop
• Norman: dgiocèse — region administered by a bishop
• Norwegian Bokmål: bispedømme — region administered by a bishop
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bispedøme — region administered by a bishop
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bispedømme — region administered by a bishop
• Polish: diecezja — region administered by a bishop
• Portuguese: diocese — region administered by a bishop
• Romanian: dioceză — region administered by a bishop
• Russian: епа́рхия (jepárxija) — region administered by a bishop
• Russian: диоце́з (diocéz) — region administered by a bishop
• Skolt-Sami: aa ́rhelkå ́dd — region administered by a bishop
• Serbo-Croatian: дијецеза — region administered by a bishop
• Serbo-Croatian: епархија — region administered by a bishop
• Serbo-Croatian: dijeceza — region administered by a bishop
• Serbo-Croatian: eparhija — region administered by a bishop
• Slovak: diecéza — region administered by a bishop
• Slovene: dieceza — region administered by a bishop
• Slovene: škofija — region administered by a bishop
• Spanish: diócesis — region administered by a bishop
• Swahili: dayosisi — region administered by a bishop
• Swedish: stift — region administered by a bishop
• Tagalog: diyosesis — region administered by a bishop
• Turkish: başpiskoposluk — region administered by a bishop
• Udi: тем (tem) — region administered by a bishop
• Ukrainian: єпа́рхія (jepárxija) — region administered by a bishop
• Ukrainian: діоце́з (diocéz) — region administered by a bishop
• Ukrainian: дієце́зія (dijecézija) — region administered by a bishop
• Vietnamese: giáo phận — region administered by a bishop
• Vietnamese: giáo khu — region administered by a bishop
• Welsh: esgobaeth — region administered by a bishop
• Welsh: esgobaethau — region administered by a bishop