bishop's seat

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The town of Dorchester on the borders of Mercia was immediately assigned to Birinus as a bishop's seat.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Sergeant, Philip Walsingham

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)

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)

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)

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