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Definitions for Suffragan
[1] assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
[2] (of a see or diocese) subordinate to an archiepiscopal or metropolitan see.
[3] a suffragan bishop.
[4] (of any bishop of a diocese) subordinate to and assisting his superior archbishop or metropolitan (of any assistant bishop) having the duty of assisting the bishop of the diocese to which he is appointed but having no ordinary jurisdiction in that diocese
[5] a suffragan bishop
Words related to Suffragan
administrator, pontiff, pope, cleric, patriarch, director, priest, prelate, metropolitan, cardinal, bishop, archpriest, angel, primate, cap, coadjutor, overseer, diocesan, archer, mitre
Words nearby Suffragan
suffocate, suffocative goiter, suffolk, suffolk punch, suffr., suffragan, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, suffrutescent, suffruticose
Origin of Suffragan
1350–1400; Middle English suffragane < Medieval Latin suffrāgāneus voting, equivalent to suffrāg(ium ) suffrage + -āneus, composite adj. suffix, equivalent to -ān(us ) -an + -eus -eous
Word origin for Suffragan
C14: from Medieval Latin suffragāneus, from suffrāgium assistance, from Latin: suffrage
Synonyms for Suffragan
archpriest, bishop, cardinal, metropolitan, patriarch, priest, clergyperson