diocesan

Pertaining to a diocese.

Diocesan bureaucracies were both symptom and cause of this.

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!’