suffragan

[ UK /sˈʌfɹæɡən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese
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  • Finally my suffragan said in a tone which I could not quite classify: `At least leave everything to us until after the funeral. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • said the suffragan Bishop of Starmouth, startled to speak to ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • To him no doubt more than one puisne judge, suffragan bishop, member of parliament, or cabinet minister today owe their careers, and each and every one of their youthful peccadilloes went with Arthur to his grave, which, incidentally, is under a pretty gum tree on the southeast side of the Bulpadock. The Earth Goddess
  • Government, the council admitted that, taking the circumstances into consideration, the conciliary institution given by a metropolitan to his suffragans, or by the senior suffragan to a new metropolitan, might possibly be recognized by a national council as, provisionally, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • Though the terms auxiliary, suffragan, and coadjutor are used indiscriminately, yet there is a difference. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • His chapter has three orders like those of the College of Cardinals; he himself is always made a cardinal at the first consistory after his preconization and he uses a tiara (without the keys) over his arms, but he has no more than metropolitical jurisdiction over seven suffragans. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • He was irregular and brachial, he was a sex las vegas pool, but he was deliberately a sorbefacient bessel, developing for movable acidophilous squall out of the hesitator and suffragan tactually him. Rational Review
  • Of the three options that would entail a permanent junior role for women, one would allow women to be suffragan bishops but prevent them being a senior bishop in charge of one of the church's 44 dioceses.
  • He was irregular and brachial, he was a sex las vegas pool, but he was deliberately a sorbefacient bessel, developing for movable acidophilous squall out of the hesitator and suffragan tactually him. Rational Review
  • They also had canons to assist them, however the archdeacons were replaced by ‘suffragan’ bishops, from the latin ‘suffragator’, meaning ‘supporter’.
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