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Suffragan   Listen
noun
Suffragan  n.  
1.
An assistant.
2.
(Eccl.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.





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"Suffragan" Quotes from Famous Books



... rural deaneries, the patronage of 131 benefices, the administration of 245 parishes. In 1471 or 1472 the see was erected into an archbishopric by a bull of Pope Sixtus IV. and at this time the Archbishop of York surrendered his claim to have the Bishop of St. Andrews as his suffragan—a claim repeatedly made since the time of Turgot and as frequently resented. The office of bishop or archbishop involved great spiritual and temporal power; the primates were lords of regality and ultimate heirs of all confiscated property within their domains; ...
— Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys • Dugald Butler and Herbert Story
... suffragan to the Bishop of Cartagena, Wenceslas Ortiz had at length gathered unto himself sufficient influence of divers nature as, in his opinion, to ensure him the See in case the bishopric should, as was contemplated, be raised eventually to the status of a Metropolitan. It was he, rather than ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking


Words linked to "Suffragan" :   bishop, suffragan bishop


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