page_title: Episcopal see
hierarchical_section_title: Episcopal see
caption_attribution_description: Pope's chair, Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Roma, Italy. The text above the chair reads the following: LEO•XIII•CELLAM•MAXIMAM•VETVSTATE•FATISCENTEUM•INCENTI•MOLITIONE•PRODVCENDAM•LAXANDAMQVE•CVRAVIT VETVS•MVSIVVM•IAM•ANTEA•PARTIBVS•INSTAVRATVM•AD•ANTIQVVM•EXEMPLAR•RESTIVI ET•IN•NOVAM•ABSIDEM•OPERE•CVLTVQVE•MAGNIFICO•EXORNATAM•TRANSFERRI•AVLAM•TRANSVEERSAM LAQVEAPI•ET•CONTIGNATIONE•REFECTIS•EXPOLIRI•IVSSIT•ANNO•CHR•MDCCCLXXXIV•SACRI•PRINC•VII
context_page_description: An episcopal see is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
  Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, making it synonymous with diocese.
  The word see is derived from Latin sedes, which in its original or proper sense denotes the seat or chair that, in the case of a bishop, is the earliest symbol of the bishop's authority. This symbolic chair is also known as the bishop's cathedra. The church in which it is placed is for that reason called the bishop's cathedral, from Latin ecclesia cathedralis, meaning the church of the cathedra. The word throne is also used, especially in the Eastern Orthodox Church, both for the chair and for the area of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
  The term "see" is also used of the town where the cathedral or the bishop's residence is located.
context_section_description: An episcopal see is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
  Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, making it synonymous with diocese.
  The word see is derived from Latin sedes, which in its original or proper sense denotes the seat or chair that, in the case of a bishop, is the earliest symbol of the bishop's authority. This symbolic chair is also known as the bishop's cathedra. The church in which it is placed is for that reason called the bishop's cathedral, from Latin ecclesia cathedralis, meaning the church of the cathedra. The word throne is also used, especially in the Eastern Orthodox Church, both for the chair and for the area of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
  The term "see" is also used of the town where the cathedral or the bishop's residence is located.
caption: The seat or cathedra of the Bishop of Rome in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
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