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.
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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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Bishop Suffragan Heather Cook will be arrested for vehicular manslaughter over the death of Tom Palermo, 41.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2015
The choice several months ago was William Blair Roberts, Suffragan Bishop of South Dakota, who declined.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Herbert Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the last 13 years he has been Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, a popular figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
On March 21, 1883, the Bishop of Ripon issued a Pastoral to his diocese, in which he formally announced the Royal assent to the appointment of Dr. Hellmuth as Bishop Suffragan of Hull.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
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