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suffragan
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suffragan
a. (of any bishop of a diocese) subordinate to and assisting his superior archbishop or metropolitan
b. (of any assistant bishop) having the duty of assisting the bishop of the diocese to which he is appointed but having no ordinary jurisdiction in that diocese


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He became suffragan Bishop of Repton, in Derby, in 1977, and eventually retired to Oxfordshire where he was an honorary assistant bishop in the diocese.
The election of a new suffragan bishop for the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI) will take place in June.
Before his arrival in Cumbria he was suffragan Bishop of Lancaster.
 
 
 
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