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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024suf•fra•gan (suf′rə gən),USA pronunciation adj. - Religionassisting 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.
- Religion(of a see or diocese) subordinate to an archiepiscopal or metropolitan see.
n. - a suffragan bishop.
- Medieval Latin suffrāgāneus voting, equivalent. to suffrāg(ium) suffrage + -āneus, composite adjective, adjectival suffix, equivalent. to -ān(us) -an + -eus -eous
- Middle English suffragane 1350–1400
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: suffragan /ˈsʌfrəɡən/ adj - (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
n - a suffragan bishop
Etymology: 14th Century: from Medieval Latin suffragāneus, from suffrāgium assistance, from Latin: suffrageˈsuffraganship n |