suffragan
Americanadjective
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assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
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(of a see or diocese) subordinate to an archiepiscopal or metropolitan see.
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- suffraganship noun
Etymology
Origin of suffragan
1350–1400; Middle English suffragane < Medieval Latin suffrāgāneus voting, equivalent to suffrāg ( ium ) suffrage + -āneus, composite adj. suffix, equivalent to -ān ( us ) -an + -eus -eous
Example Sentences
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The Rev. Carl Wright, the Episcopal Church's bishop suffragan for armed services and federal ministries, offered the blessing as Maj.
From Fox News • Jan. 14, 2020
The Holy Eucharist with the ordination and consecration of Carl Walter Wright as bishop suffragan for the armed forces and federal ministries.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2017
She served as the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts until 2003.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2016
The Rt Rev North has become a suffragan - or assistant bishop - in the Diocese of Blackburn and replaces the Rt Rev John Goddard, who retired in July.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2015
Originally, the pretensions of Byzantium to ecclesiastical rank were sufficiently humble, its bishop being but a suffragan of the metropolitan of Heraclea.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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