All 5 Uses of
jurisdiction
in
Death Comes for the Archbishop
- The Vicarate of New Mexico will be in a few years raised to an Episcopal See, with jurisdiction over a country larger than Central and Western Europe, barring Russia.†
Part Pro.
- "But these missions are still under the jurisdiction of Mexico, are they not?" inquired the Frenchman.†
Part Pro. *
- They said they were under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durango, and had received no instructions to the contrary.†
Part 1
- The authorities at Rome notified Father Latour that this new territory was to be annexed to his diocese, but that as the national boundary lines often cut parishes in two, the boundaries of Church jurisdiction must be settled by conference with the Mexican Bishops of Chihuahua and Sonora.†
Part 7
- This new and populous community must, for the present, the Kansas Bishop wrote, be accounted under Father Latour's jurisdiction.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(jurisdiction) the authority to make decisions or apply the law; or the territory subject to such authority