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Suffragan, term used to describe the relationship of diocesan bishops to their archbishops. A residential, or diocesan, bishop is in charge of a...

Roman Catholicism is professed by about 97 per cent of Spaniards. The country is divided into 11 metropolitan and more than 50 suffragan sees....

A certain jurisdictional hierarchy exists within the order of bishop. Generally in the Western Church, an archbishop, or metropolitan, is a prelate...

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- assistant bishop: a Christian bishop appointed to assist the main bishop in a diocese
- bishop as assistant to archbishop: the Christian bishop of a diocese who is an assistant to the archbishop of the province to which the diocese belongs

	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Suffragan bishop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop. [edit] Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church this term is applied to all non-metropolitan ... suffragan - Wiktionary Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary suffragan definition of suffragan in the Free Online Encyclopedia. suffragan. a. (of any bishop of a diocese) subordinate to and assisting his superior archbishop or metropolitan . b. (of any assistant bishop) having the duty of assisting the ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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