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Definition of Suffragan bishop
1. Noun. An assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffragan Bishop
Literary usage of Suffragan bishop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inventory of Unpublished Material for American Religious History in by William Henry Allison (1910)
"1702. The case of suffragan Bishops for foreign parts briefly proposed. 1704.
Clergy in the Plantations. Address for a suffragan bishop. [Burlington], Nov. ..."
2. Journal by United States Congress Senate, United States, Congress (1905)
"At the same time, Lewis Thomas was consecrated as suffragan Bishop of Shrewsbury.
Here arise two difficulties; neither of which, so far as I know, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"In ecclesiastical usage every bishop of a'province is said to be suffragan
relatively to the archbishop. See suffragan bishop, under ..."
4. Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law: And Various Points of English by William Forsyth (1869)
"MY LORD,—We have received your Lordship's letter of the 2nd instant, relative to
the appointment of a suffragan Bishop of Montreal, and desiring us to ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Bishop Ostrowski obtained from the Holy See a new suffragan bishop for Pomerania,
but this suffragan see had only ..."
6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A suffragan bishop, an honorary canon, a Lynch-judge, a lieutenant-colonel, the
temporary editor of a journal, are not " pucka," or bona ..."
7. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"Rogers, suffragan bishop of Dover, and dean of Chrisfs- church, Canterbury, died
in May this year, 1597. A letter of his (the year uncertain) written to Mr. ..."
8. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1914)
"Staten Island, who was chosen on November 10 suffragan bishop of the Diocese ...
In 1911 Thomas J. Garland was elected suffragan bishop of Philadelphia an« ..."
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