ALL meanings of suffragan
suf·fra·gan
S s - adjective suffragan 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. 1
- adjective suffragan (of a see or diocese) subordinate to an archiepiscopal or metropolitan see. 1
- noun suffragan a suffragan bishop. 1
- adjective suffragan (of any bishop of a diocese) subordinate to and assisting his superior archbishop or metropolitan 0
- adjective suffragan (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 0
- noun suffragan a suffragan bishop 0
- noun suffragan a bishop appointed to assist the bishop of a diocese 0
- noun suffragan any bishop in his capacity as a subordinate to his archbishop 0
- adjective suffragan designating or of such a bishop 0
- adjective suffragan subordinate to a larger see 0