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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



... meanly endowed Cures throughout England,"—of "a superior School for training up Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses,"—and of "Colleges or Seminaries for the Candidates of Holy Orders." He suggested that there should be "Houses of Hospitality for entertaining Strangers;" "Suffragan Bishops, both at home and in the Western Plantations;" "Colleges for receiving Converts from Popery." Some of Nelson's suggestions read like vaticinations. He points out the need of Ladies' Colleges,—of a Hospital ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon


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