bishop's seat
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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)
Here and there, traces of stone-benches were visible; while a high-backed chair, likewise of stone, and resembling a bishop's seat in old churches, stood beside the window.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
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.
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)
