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

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)

Cathed′ra, a bishop's seat, the episcopal dignity—ex cathedra, from the chair, officially given forth.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

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.