Suffragan Definition

sŭfrə-gən, -jən
noun
A bishop appointed to assist the bishop of a diocese.
Webster's New World
Any bishop in his capacity as a subordinate to his archbishop.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • suffragan bishop
adjective
Designating or of such a bishop.
Webster's New World
Subordinate to a larger see.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Suffragan

Noun

Singular:
suffragan
Plural:
suffragans

Origin of Suffragan

  • Middle English from Old French from Medieval Latin suffrāgāneus voting, supporting from Latin suffrāgium support, right to vote from suffrāgārī to express support bhreg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman, Old French suffragam, from (the stem of) Latin suffrāgium (“suffrage").

    From Wiktionary

Suffragan Sentence Examples

  • At the head of the Argentine hierarchy are one archbishop and five suffragan bishops, who have five seminaries for the education of the priesthood.

  • Isolated examples in the early middle ages of metropolitans dealing with their suffragan bishops by imprisonment in chains were extra-canonical abuses, connected with the perversion of Church law which treated the metropolitan (who originally was merely convener of the provincial synod and its representative during the intervals of sessions) as the feudal " lord " of his comprovincials.

  • As to suffragan bishops in the province of Canterbury, see Read v.

  • The state religion is Roman Catholic, and there is an archbishop of Montevideo with two suffragan bishops.

  • He deprived Taenberht, archbishop of Canterbury, of several of his suffragan sees, and assigned them to Lichfield, which, with the leave of the pope, he constituted as a separate archbishopric under Hygeberht.

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