bishop's seat
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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 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)
The bishop's seat was originally at Wells, where it still continues.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy
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)
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)
