There was some further altercation about the Petrine claims to supremacy; and Dowdall, finding that he made no impression, left the hall with all his suffragans except Staples, and repaired to his own diocese.
The Archbishop of Tuam and his suffragans neither came nor apologised.
The Archbishop of Armagh and hissuffragans sent proctors with excuses for non-attendance.
More than nine thousand clergymen, with the Primate and his most respectable suffragans at their head, offered themselves to endure bonds and the spoiling of their goods for the great fundamental principle of our free constitution.
Yet this traitorous fiction was now considered by the Primate and by many of hissuffragans as the only basis on which they could, in strict conformity with Christian principles, erect a government.
Five suffragans of the Archbishop, who had shared his perils and his glory in the preceding summer, were present.
The occupants of these when driven away clung to their titles in hopes of better times, and found employment as assistants or suffragans of Western bishops.
The king insisted upon sureties; and Becket desired leave to consult his suffragans in a case of such importance.
The Primate indeed and several of his suffragans stood obstinately aloof: but three Bishops and seventy-three temporal peers took the oaths.
On his right and left those suffragansof Canterbury who had taken the oaths were ranged in gorgeous vestments of scarlet and miniver.
But the Primate and five of his suffragans were still inflexible.
But he issued a commission empowering any three of his suffragans to commit, in his name, and as his delegates, the sins which he did not choose to commit in person.
The bishops of Gaul and Spain, of Thrace and Pontus, reigned over an ample territory, and delegated their rural suffragans to execute the subordinate duties of the pastoral office.
As soon as a bishop had closed his eyes, the metropolitan issued a commission to one of his suffragans to administer the vacant see, and prepare, within a limited time, the future election.
Ordinarily, however, his suffragans visited him, and not he them; all Ireland went up to Tara to the Feis, or to the festivals of Baaltine and Samhain.
The bishops admitted to the King's presence announced the appeal of the Archbishop to the Pope, and his inhibition to his suffragans to sit in judgment in a secular council on their metropolitan.
Becket addressed a triumphant or gratulatory letter to hissuffragans on their firmness.
He now requested delay, in order to advise with his suffragans and the clergy.
The remonstrance, purporting to be from the Primate's suffragans and the whole clergy of England, was not without dignified calmness.
The next year the archbishop and six of his suffragans were chosen as "Ordainers," the name given to a commission appointed by a council of magnates, lay and spiritual, to carry out a system of reform.
The primate and his suffragans then rose and prayed the king to have mercy on the bishop.
He then summoned a council at Clarendon, and there, under strong pressure, the primate and his suffragans took the required pledge.
This was forbidden by the Pope, and the primate and his suffragansrefused the king's request.
Most of his suffragans were also carried [p068] off.
At Mainz the Archbishop Peter, who had incurred Clement's displeasure by transferring to his suffragans his powers as commissioner over the Templar property, was at length forced to call a provincial council.
The result was adverse to Wirt, who left Frankfort filled with wrath, and published a savage attack upon his adversaries, which the Archbishop of Mainz caused to be publicly burned, while all his suffragansprohibited its circulation.
The bishopric of Nueva Segovia is one of the suffragans of this archbishopric of Manila, and it was erected at the same time as the others and in the same circumstances.
As suffragans the cathedral has three bishops--namely, in the island of Sebu, and in Cagayan and Camarines.
The suffragansdid not take part in the consecration.
The king insisted upon sureties; and Becket desired leave to consult his suffragans in a case of such importance [k].
In prophetic language he warned his suffragans that if they were not more zealous for reform all their courts might be swept away.
Meanwhile we learn that they were not very obedient suffragans of Canterbury; and we cease to wonder that they were ignored in the Rathbreasail decrees.
The episcopate now consists of an archbishop and three suffragans (Hackett, Orthodox Church in Cyprus, 1901, ch.
An exception should be made in the case of Georgia, which is governed by an "exarch," with three suffragans under him.
The final court is the island synod, which consists of the archbishop, his suffragansand four dignified priests.
Perplexity" arose where the suffragans "could not owing to the geographical limitations of their competence do full justice" (Maitland, pp.
But the archbishop stood stiflie in his opinion, and would not bend at all, till at length not onelie his suffragans the bishops, [Sidenote: R.
The diocese is thus established in antiquity, and endures to-day with suffragans at Aire, Tarbes, and Bayonne.
The ancient diocese of Poitiers was divided into three, and that of Agen into two by the erection of suffragans at Maillezais, Lucon, Sarlat, and Condom.
Chambery is to-day an archbishopric, with suffragans at Annecy, Tarentaise, and St. Jean de Maurienne.
On the other side, the bishops suffragans to the church of Canturburie obiected also against him, that he had vsed the familiar companie of a nunne, and begot of hir certeine children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffragans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
