Cathedral

A tract set apart for the service of the church. After the establishment of Christianity, the emperors and other great men gav< tracts of land whereon the first places of public worship were erected,— which were called cathedral, catl sees, or seats, from the clergy's residence thereon. And when churches were afterwards built in the country, and the clergy were sent out from the cathedrals to officiate therein, the cathedral or head, uiained to the bishop, with some of the chief of the clergy as his assistants.