Despite claims of following the Church's procedures for dealing with child-molesting priests, diocesan authorities made no attempt to contact the police.

In 1978, diocesan authorities announced that the territorial parish of Annunciation would be consolidated.

The celebret should be officially recognized by the diocesan authority of the place where a priest may wish to say Mass.

The peak of this pattern of medieval order was the diocesan authority, the bishop himself.

His superiors were uneasy; diocesan authorities were suspicious; doctors called him a quack.

But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish.

He became so popular with the people that the diocesan authorities, not to mention the medical profession, grew suspicious of him.

They chose to remain in the beaterio and to preserve their institutional identity, this time under diocesan authority.

According to the diocesan authorities It has a congregation of some 3,000 souls.

In fact, it had claimed and vindicated its status as a royal chapel, independent of the diocesan authorities, for many centuries already.