bishop's seat

In this sentence, it means the body of clergy in the church who chant the sacred offices; above, referring to the bishop’s seat, it meant the place which the clergy occupied during the church services.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

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 Philip Walsingham Sergeant

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 W. D. (Walter Debenham) Sweeting

The original dedication is not known, but in 1588 it was already used as an Ecclesiastical Court, and the next year a bishop's seat was made for use in it.

From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Frederick W. Woodhouse