bishop's seat

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

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony

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)

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)

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)

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 Addleshaw, Percy