suffragan

Speech parts

1. suffragan - Noun

2. suffragan - Adjective

Meaning

An assistant.

Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop.

A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.

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Around 1245 the Papal legate William of Modena reached a compromise: though incorporated into the Order's State, the archdiocese and its suffragan bishoprics were acknowledged with their autonomous ecclesiastical territories by the Teutonic Knights. Source: Internet

It has been thought that the diocese was united to that of Frequentium as early as the 5th century, but there is mention of Quintodecimo as a suffragan see of Benevento in 969 and 1058. Source: Internet

The city was the site of the See of Tyre whose archbishop was a suffragan of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem ; its archbishops often acceded to the Patriarchate. Source: Internet

Under the Latin Patriarch there were four suffragan archdioceses and numerous dioceses. Source: Internet

Havana is one of the three Metropolitan sees on the island (the others being Camaguëy and Santiago), with two suffragan bishoprics: Mananzas and Pinar del Río. Source: Internet

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