Usually means: Assistant bishop to a metropolitan.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffragan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suffragan: Merriam-Webster
  3. suffragan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suffragan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suffragan: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suffragan: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suffragan, suffragan: Wordnik
  8. suffragan: Wiktionary
  9. suffragan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. suffragan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. suffragan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. suffragan: Dictionary.com
  13. suffragan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Suffragan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Suffragan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. suffragan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. suffragan: Rhymezone
  18. Suffragan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. suffragan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. suffragan: FreeDictionary.org
  21. suffragan: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. suffragan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. suffragan: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUFFRAGAN: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffragan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

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