1) Bishop 2) French word used in English 3) Suffragan bishop
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assistant bishop
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• (a.) Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop. • (a.) An assistant. • (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.
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In the Christian church, an assistant bishop, appointed to work in a part of the diocese. ...
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Suf'fra·gan adjective [ French
suffragant , Latin
suffragans , present participle of
suffragari to support with one's vote, to be favorable. See
Suffrage .] Assisting; assistant; as, a
suffragan bishop.
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Originally all provincial bishops under a metropolitan were called his
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[
n] - an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese
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suffragan bishop noun an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese
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assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, 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......
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