suffragan bishop
Subordinate diocesan cleric
A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan or diocesan bishop, assisting with duties in a larger diocese.
The term distinguishes auxiliary bishops from those who hold full authority over their own territory.
In Anglican churches especially, suffragans handle specific geographic areas or administrative functions while remaining under the diocesan bishop's oversight: The suffragan bishop of Kensington confirmed her.
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
- rectorParish clergy chief
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
- coadjutorAssistant with succession rights
- curateSelect and present thoughtfully
canon · pastoral care · medieval church · chaplain · episcopacy · delegated authority · dean · crosier · prelate · throne · assistant · vicar · ecclesiastical · mitre · cathedral · synod · apostolic · pallium
- Catholic Clergypope, pontiff, cardinal, monsignor, archbishop
- church officialsrector, vicar, curate, parson, abbot
- church rolesdeacons, priest, pastor, lay readers, altar girl
- clergypriest, pope, nun, monk, pastor
- Anglican ChurchAnglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England, parish, diocese
- Anglican Clergypriest, deacon, vicar, curate, rector
suffragan bishopordinary
Standard, unremarkable
diocesan · metropolitan · archbishop · primate · pope