Word: suffragan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luck, but it seemed hardly fair to charge the four decliners with fear of hard work. Each is industrious in a busy diocese. A bishop coadjutor helps a bishop and succeeds to his position after his death, retirement or removal from office. Herein he differs from a bishop suffragan who also helps a bishop but does not necessarily succeed him. The yearly salary of the Philadelphia bishop coadjutor is $10,000, plus $2,500 for maintenance of a house...
...both Chambers, a pleiad of army generals, the Burgomasters of the chief cities of members of the Courts of Justice, the Rector of the University of Louvain, surrounded by a brilliant array of professors in caps and gowns-were all in the church when His Eminence, accompanied by his Suffragan Bishops and preceded by Monsignori, Cathedral Canons, superiors of religious orders and clergy, marched up the main aisle, between a double row of clerics wearing over their cassocks white surplices trimmed with red.. The Cardinal, vested in cope and mitre, blessing right and left, by his imposing stature dominated...
...Cathedral and the 31st anniversary of that Day of St. John the Evangelist when the cornerstone "of the greatest cathedral in the English-speaking world" was laid. The religious services of celebration started in the morning with Holy Communion administered by the Rev. Henry Van Dyke,-as celebrant, Suffragan Bishop Lloyd as deacon, Suffragan Bishop Shipman as sub deacon. At the beginning of the afternoon an elaborate luncheon was served in the crypt of Synod Hall, after which the remainder of the afternoon was spent in meetings of committees and commissions charged with bringing about the completion of the nave...