Search Result for "ecclesiastical province":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order;
- Example: "the general of the Jesuits has several provinces under him"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ecclesiastical province
    n 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"