suffragan in English

noun
1
a bishop appointed to help a diocesan bishop.
All 44 diocesan bishops and 10 suffragans were asked to attend the meeting to discuss October's Windsor Report, a document produced to examine the crisis.
noun
    suffragan bishop

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1. Hargrave consecrated Suffragan Bishop of the Southwestern Archdeanery.

2. The archbishopric of Magdeburg was founded in 968 with three suffragan Bishoprics

3. At the time of its establishment, the Archbishopric comprised 32 suffragan sees.

4. "Autocephalous" metropolitans had no suffragan bishops, and depended directly on the patriarch

5. The Archdeacons assist and support the Suffragan Bishops in their leadership of the Diocesan Mission Strategy

6. Bishop Louttit is Bishop of the central Archdeanery, Bishop Duncan consecrated Suffragan Bishop, and is assigned to the East Coast of South Florida

7. Diocese corresponds in extent with that of the Established Church, and is one of the six suffragan to the Archbishoprick of Tuam

8. The Diocese of AAchen (Aquisgranensis) has been suffragan to Cologne since 1930.In 2001 it had 590 secular and 176 religious priests, 238 members of men's …

9. As a bishopric, Avitta Bibba was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Carthage.This may have been the see of the bishop Tertullus (Tertullus Abitensis) who took part in a council held at Cabarsussi in 393 by a breakaway group of

10. Archbishop's province comprises the diocese of Tuam, with the bishopricks of Clonfert, Achonry, Elphin, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora, Killala, and Galway: the diocese of Kilfenora is alternately suffragan to the Archbishopricks of Tuam and Cashel; and on the dissolution of the R