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Suffragan

noun
1.
An assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese.  Synonym: suffragan bishop.





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... more illustrious was his chief suffragan, the metropolitan of Palestine, the bishop of Caesarea, Eusebius. We honor him as the father of ecclesiastical history, as the chief depositary of the traditions which connect the fourth with the first century. But in the bishops of Nicaea his presence awakened feelings ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various


Words linked to "Suffragan" :   bishop


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