bishop's seat

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So to the town of Chester, where there were about 400 or 500 houses, the bishop's seat was moved.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.

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 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)

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 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