bishop's seat
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He mounted the bishop's seat, a stately throne, rich with the carving of the fifteenth century.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw
To the Church, no doubt, its cathedral here has a fixed and administrative meaning, which is the same as that of every other bishop's seat and with which we have nothing whatever to do.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
The ancient Romanesque cathedral of Notre Dame—from which the bishop's seat has been removed to the more modern St. Jerome—is an unusually interesting old church, though bare and unpretentious to-day.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
The town of Dorchester on the borders of Mercia was immediately assigned to Birinus as a bishop's seat.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant
In 1627 the bishop's seat was removed to Sao Paulo de Loanda and Sao Salvador declined in importance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
