officialate

noun

officialate

noun

Etymology From official + -ate.

1

A diocesan tribunal.

The three dioceses which were divided into two archdeaconries – St Andrews , Glasgow and Orkney – were divided also into two officialates and elsewhere there were subordinate officialates.1985, Gordon Donaldson, Scottish Church History, page 41:

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