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...
- Garzon is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Popayán in the Republic of Colombia. Lying eat of Popayán, the diocese comprises the provinces of Neiva and...
- The Suffragan Bishop in Europe is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese in Europe (in the Province of Canterbury...
- ****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...
- 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...
- archbishop has metropolitical and primatial power. Area bishop Some Anglican suffragans are given the responsibility for a geographical area within the diocese...
- Luxor (Arabic: الأقصر, romanized: al-ʾuqṣur, lit. 'the palaces') is a city in Upper Egypt, which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes...
- 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...
- years' schism, those of his suffragans whose sees lay within the empire joined him in submission to Rome; his mainland suffragans among the Lombards persisted...