• 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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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