A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
1 He died July 1837, and is buried beneath the bishop 's throne .
2 Athanasius fainted in the tumult; yet before they reached the bishop 's throne its occupant had somehow been safely conveyed away.
3 To quote the Oxford Dictionary, a cathedral is the principal church of diocese with bishop 's throne , and as such is a diocesan responsibility.
4 The momentum of the shock and scorn of last year's defeat could propel the first woman on to a bishop 's throne by 2015.
5 The bishop 's throne , a lofty modern structure, made by Earp of Lambeth, was presented by those clergymen who had been ordained in the cathedral.
6 From other sources I gather that the archdeacon's stall then, as now, was next to the bishop 's throne at the south-eastern end of the stalls.
7 The choir pulpit, Bishop 's throne , and the cost of cleaning the whitewash from the nave were given by Dean Argles.
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