bishop's seat

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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

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 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

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

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)