Suffragan synonyms

At the head of the Argentine hierarchy are one archbishop and five suffragan bishops, who have five seminaries for the education of the priesthood.

Isolated examples in the early middle ages of metropolitans dealing with their suffragan bishops by imprisonment in chains were extra-canonical abuses, connected with the perversion of Church law which treated the metropolitan (who originally was merely convener of the provincial synod and its representative during the intervals of sessions) as the feudal " lord " of his comprovincials.

As to suffragan bishops in the province of Canterbury, see Read v.

The state religion is Roman Catholic, and there is an archbishop of Montevideo with two suffragan bishops.