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Definition of suffragan noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

suffragan

noun

/ˈsʌfrəɡən/

/ˈsʌfrəɡən/

(also suffragan bishop)

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a bishop who is an assistant to a bishop of a particular diocese
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French and Old French, representing medieval Latin suffraganeus ‘assistant (bishop)’, from Latin suffragium.

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