Topic summary
Suffragan
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Suffragan bishop.
United States
Suffragan bishops are fairly common in larger dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA), but usually have no responsibility for a specific geographical part of a diocese. ECUSA is not within the jurisdiction of the English law that requires diocesan and suffragan bishops to be appointed as bishop to a specific place, and so suffragans are not given the title of any particular city within the diocese. For example, Barbara Harris, the first female bishop in the Anglican Communion, was titled simply Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts.