bishop's seat
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John de Villula, with the intention of making the city the bishop's seat, built here a church so spacious that the nave alone would swallow up the existing building.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
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 Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
A memory of the fact that the bishop was in place of the abbot remains to this day in the position of the bishop's seat in the choir.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See by Sweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)
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)
To-day the nearest bishop's seat is at Tarbes, in the archbishopric of Auch.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
