bishop's seat

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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 other part is East Gautland, where there is also a bishop's seat, to which the islands of Gotland and Eyland belong; and forming all together a still greater bishopric.

From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

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

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony

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

For a long time the city was only a bishop's seat, but in 1559 it was made an archbishopric.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)