suffragans

The suffragans were the Bishops of Skara, Linköping, Strengnäs, and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

These bishops are called the suffragans or comprovincials.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

[148] But even more distressing to the new archbishop than the disaffection of his suffragans was the refusal of his friend Gregory to come in person to support him on his throne.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

Sancroft called his suffragans together, and the six who were able to appear at Lambeth signed a temperate protest to the king in which they declined to publish an illegal Declaration.

History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860

Thus in the fifteenth century several bishops of Dromore were "suffragans" of the archbishop of York; but Dromore was certainly not regarded as one of his suffragan sees.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899

This was the spectacle, as recollection has enabled me to describe it, that this wretch made to my eye, by her suffragans and daughters, who surveyed her with scouling frighted attention, which one might easily see had more in it of horror and self-concern (and self-condemnation too) than of love or pity; as who should say,

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

There was a notable expansion of missions to East Asia: China (an archbishop and ten suffragans, 1312; 50 Franciscan houses, 1314; missions to Persia).

e. The Papacy and Italy 2001

Whereas now they do well enough while they feed themselves only, and for the care of their flock either put it over to Christ or lay it all on their suffragans, as they call them, or some poor vicars.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

St. Samson and his six suffragans — all monks, missionaries, and bishops, like himself — were called the "Seven Saints of Brittany;" St. Samson was what was termed an "evêque portatif," meaning a bishop without a diocese, until he founded that of Dol.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

The Primate Pole, the last Romanist at Canterbury and the last Legate openly accredited to an English sovereign, and many of his suffragans likewise, died about the same time; and it was left for Bonner to preside over a thin Upper House.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock