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                  Da De Di Do Dr Dy
                  Die Dig Dil Dio Dip Dis Dit

                  diocese

                  the extent of a bishop’s jurisdiction, which continued to be important for long after the Reformation, because the area of jurisdiction of each commissary was determined by the bounds of the earlier diocese.