suffragan bishop

1. 1.

   an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese

   Synonymssuffragan

   Broaderbishop

Questions about suffragan bishop

What does suffragan bishop mean?

suffragan bishop means "an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese".

What is another word for suffragan bishop?

Close synonyms include suffragan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suffragan bishop a common word?

suffragan bishop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.