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n. A bishop elected or appointed as an assistant to the bishop or ordinary of a diocese, having administrative and episcopal responsibilities but no jurisdictional functions.

n. A bishop regarded in position as subordinate to an archbishop or a metropolitan.

adj. Of, being, or relating to a suffragan.

n. A bishop seen in relation to his archbishop or metropolitan province (which may summon him for support, to attend synods etc.).

n. An auxiliary bishop.

adj. Of or pertaining to a suffragan.

adj. Assisting; assistant.

n. An assistant.

n. A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.

Assisting; assistant; of or pertaining to a suffragan: as, a suffragan bishop; a suffragan see.

n. An auxiliary bishop, especially one with no right of ordinary jurisdiction; in the Ch. of Eng., a bishop who has been consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in a particular part of his diocese, like the ancient chorepiscopus (which see).

n. A title of every ordinary bishop with respect to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior.

n. an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese

"Occasionally there have been two assistants of the vicar, to one of whom were committed all matters of jurisdiction, to the other the pontificalia and ordinations; the latter was known as suffragan of the vicar."

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