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...
- The See was created by Order in Council on 11 October 1923 (under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888) and took its name after Hulme, an area of the city...
- 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....
- when Capri, Scala, Minori, and Lettere were made dioceses to serve as suffragans of Amalfi, which thereby became a metropolitan see. Capri continued to...
- Manchester; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 10 August 1926. The suffragan has oversight of the archdeaconries...
- suffragans: Archdiocese of Trnava Diocese of Nitra Diocese of Žilina Diocese of Banská Bystrica Archdiocese of Košice with the following suffragans:...
- county town of Lancaster in Lancashire; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nomination Act 1888 by Order in Council dated 24 July 1936. The current...