bishop's seat

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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 Adams, Henry

SW. of Lyons, a bishop's seat, with a 10th-century cathedral; is the centre of a great lace manufacture.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

The bishop's seat was originally at Wells, where it still continues.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy

The bishops deliberated by themselves on the matter, and then proposed in public the person whom they considered worthy of the bishop’s seat.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

I wish for your sake, it really was a bishop's seat.'

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony