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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suffragan /ˈsʌfrəg(ə)n/ (also suffragan bishop or bishop suffragan)

▶noun a bishop appointed to help a diocesan bishop.

■ a bishop in relation to his archbishop or metropolitan.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. and OFr., representing med. L. suffraganeus ‘assistant (bishop)’, from L. suffragium ‘suffrage’.

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