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Meaning of "suffragan"
Suffragan: (adverb) ~ a bishop assisting a diocesan bishop, hence used in church administration context. For example, 'He served as a suffragan bishop in the diocese.'
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- A bishop seen in relation to his archbishop or metropolitan province (which may summon him for support, to attend synods etc.).
- An auxiliary bishop.
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In his diocesan duties he was assisted by a suffragan bishop.
A suffragan bishop is a bishop appointed to help another bishop.
The other bishops are known as suffragan bishops.
A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop.
It has at least one suffragan diocese.
A metropolitan cathedral is a cathedral to which other cathedrals in a province are suffragan.
It has three suffragan eparchies.
The subordinate dioceses are likewise called suffragan dioceses.
See also suffragan bishop.
Imola remains your suffragan.
Of their suffragan bishops.
The other dioceses in the province are called suffragan dioceses.
The suffragan bishops have been under the jurisdiction of a number of different dioceses.
There are also more than eighty suffragan bishoprics.
It was then a suffragan of the archdiocese of Siracusa.
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Nearby words for suffragan.
Since then it was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Seville.
Metropolitans themselves would be investigated by their senior suffragan bishops.
There are five suffragan bishops.
Thus the restored hierarchy consisted of one metropolitan archbishop and twelve suffragan bishops.
At that time it was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Monreale.
The archdiocese has administrative control over the suffragan dioceses viz.
This diocese was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Trondheim.
The council decided to assign it as a suffragan of Nicomedia.
The see was suffragan of the archdiocese of Conza.
Dionysias then was a diocese with a suffragan bishop from Bosra.
It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Benevento.
Its bishopric was a suffragan of Carthage.
It is a suffragan diocese of the archdiocese of Mandalay.
Avellino was still a suffragan of Benevento.
It is a suffragan of the archbishopric of Turin.
Its bishopric was a suffragan of Apamea.
It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Auch.
Diocese of Haiti sets date for bishop suffragan election.
The diocese was suffragan of the archdiocese of Ravenna.
As metropolis of the province of Arabia it had nineteen or twenty suffragan sees.
Derbe became a suffragan see of Iconium.
It is a suffragan eparchy in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archeparchy of Prešov.
At that time it was a suffragan of the diocese of Milan.
Suffragan for east and north London.
The diocese used to be a suffragan of the archdiocese of Otranto.
The bishopric of Macon was established as a suffragan of Lyon.
It used to be a suffragan of the archdiocese of Monreale.
The diocesan Bishop of Bradford had no suffragan bishops.
It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Cagliari.
From the beginning the bishopric of Geneva was a suffragan of the archbishopric of Vienne.
It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Milan.
The church was the seat of the suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough.
It was suffragan to the archdiocese of Benevento.
Currently the diocese remains a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Paris.
