ecclesiastical province

1. 1.

   the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order

   “the general of the Jesuits has several provinces under him”

   Broaderprovince

Questions about ecclesiastical province

What does ecclesiastical province mean?

ecclesiastical province means "the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order".

Is ecclesiastical province a common word?

ecclesiastical province is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.