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.

This catacomb contains an unquestionable example of a church, divided into a nave and chancel, with a rude stone altar and bishop’s seat behind it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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)

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

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

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony