suffragans

• He was summoned to the conclave held on the death of Pope Pius IX., but arrived only after the election of Pope Leo XIII., to whom he paid homage, receiving from his hands the Cardinal's hat, the last ceremonial connected with his appointment After his return he resumed his usual duties, but they soon required the aid of a younger prelate, though all his suffragans were ever ready to relieve their venerated Metropolitan by officiating for him. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
• The most influential of his suffragans, Bishop Fox of Winchester, declared that the mere version was worth ten commentaries, one of the most learned, Fisher of Rochester, entertained Erasmus at his house Sidenote: More Daring and full of promise as were these efforts of the New Learning in the direction of educational and religious reform, its political and social speculations took a far wider range in the "Utopia" of Thomas More. —  History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540
• A fourth is directed to the suffragans, requiring them to receive and acknowledge him as archbishop. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
• However barbarous the times, and however negligent zealous churchmen were then of morality, these are not words which a primate of great sense and of much seeming sanctity would employ in an assembly of his suffragans: he might act upon these principles, but never surely would publicly avow them. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
• The archbishop of Rouen, with thrée of his suffragans, the archbishop of Yorke, and manie other bishops of England: Theodorus the earle of Flanders, with a great number of other earles, lords and barons were present there at his coronation. —  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second

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