Definition of Suffragans. Meaning of Suffragans. Synonyms of Suffragans

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Definition of Suffragans

Suffragan
Suffragan Suf"fra*gan, n. [F. suffragant: cf. LL. suffraganeus. See Suffragan, a.] 1. An assistant. 2. (Eccl.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.

Meaning of Suffragans from wikipedia

- of suffragans were still limited to the 26 towns named in the 1534 Act; the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 allowed the creation of new suffragan sees...
- A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian...
- ****istant) bishops in England and Wales. The tradition of appointing suffragans named after a town in the diocese other than the town the diocesan bishop...
- of women due to complementarian beliefs. The see was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 8 February 1994 and licensed...
- archbishop by Henry of Blois, the Bishop of Winchester and the other suffragan bishops of Canterbury. A rift grew between Henry and Becket as the new...
- from about 1075 also Poznań. The position of the archbishops and their suffragans was confirmed in the 1136 Bull of Gniezno issued by Pope Innocent II....
- suffragans: Archdiocese of Trnava Diocese of Nitra Diocese of Žilina Diocese of Banská Bystrica Archdiocese of Košice with the following suffragans:...
- The Bishop of Guildford was a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Winchester in the Province of Canterbury. In the late nineteenth century...
- Anglo-Saxon Bishops of Ramsbury; the modern See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 24 October 1973. From the...
- was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 6 February 1925. From 1981 to 2009, the suffragan Bishop of Sherborne was...