bishop's seat
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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)
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 apse has a marble seat running round it, with the bishop's seat in the centre raised on several steps.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
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
