A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful...
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such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbishop" (intermediary rank) or "titular bishop" (lowest rank), which normally...
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Gabès (redirect from Titular Bishop of Tacape)
included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. Three of its bishops are known: Dulcitius, legate of the bishops of Tripolitana to the Council of Carthage...
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assuming office or installation. A titular bishop (or titular archbishop) is a/an (arch)bishop who is not (arch)bishop of a/an (arch)diocese; unless (since...
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Chalcedon (redirect from Titular Bishop of Chalcedon)
Chalcedon as a titular see with archiepiscopal rank, with known incumbents since 1356. Among the titular bishops named to this see were William Bishop (1623–1624)...
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The Titular Bishop of Jegra (Serbian Cyrillic: Викарни епископ јегарски) is a titular bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church, who also serves as the vicar...
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Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (redirect from Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem)
Rafic Nahra, titular bishop of Verbe Auxiliary Bishop (11 March 2022 – present): Jamal Khader Daibes, titular bishop of Patara Auxiliary Bishop (9 January...
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Kom Ombo (redirect from Titular bishop of Ombi)
included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. Karol Wojtyła (the future Pope John Paul II) was titular bishop of Ombi from 1958 until 1963, when he...
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bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist as territorial jurisdictions. In the Catholic Church, auxiliary bishops exist in both the...
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Thapsus (redirect from Titular Bishop of Thapsus)
484 and then exiled. The Catholic Church reëstablished it in 1914 as a titular see. It is a Latin title of the lowest rank, with one archiepiscopal exception...
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