suffragan

He held the director's post until his election as bishop suffragan.

After the first suffragan bishop, the position fell into abeyance.

Previously the position had been occupied by a retired Suffragan bishop.

The first suffragan bishops also began arriving in 1598.

Barbara Harris became bishop suffragan of the diocese in 1989.

In 1949, he was elected bishop suffragan of Alabama.

The great thing, he decided, was not to get trapped in the cul de sac of being a suffragan.

In 1862 the diocese was again a suffragan of Aix.

From 1537 to 1572, there was one suffragan Bishop of Berwick.

By 1557, Malacca was raised to a suffragan see (deputy diocese).

From 1983 he was a Suffragan Bishop, a post he held for 16 years.

The diocese is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Florence.

It is the only suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Within Australia the church hierarchy is made of metropolitan archdioceses and suffragan sees.

Since then it was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Seville.

He was elected Suffragan Bishop in 1956 and retired in 1968.

Thus, the metropolitan archdiocese of Westminster came to have fifteen suffragan sees, the largest number in the world.

The diocese was canonically established on the June 25, 1983 and is a suffragan of the said archdiocese.

The bishop is a suffragan to the Patriarch of Babylon.

The original diocese was in Palestine, a suffragan of Petra.

A suffragan for twelve years in East Africa.

Thus the restored hierarchy consisted of one metropolitan archbishop and twelve suffragan bishops.

Dena Harrison serves as bishop suffragan for the central region of the diocese.

Since 1886, without suffragan, separated from Scutari, with which it had been united in 1867 on equal terms.

Before this time the term "suffragan" referred to diocesan bishops in relation to their metropolitan.