titular bishop

In other cases titular bishops still take a titular see.

Most titular bishops hold the title to a titular see.

Some Latin titular bishops in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are also known.

It is used for bishops who hold no ordinary power of their own and thus are titular bishops.

(Titular bishops almost never have their sees mentioned).

Five other titular bishops of the sixteenth century are mentioned in the Revue bénédictine.

Titular bishops often serve as auxiliary bishops.

However, generally, titular bishops are auxiliary bishops.

Bishops who are assigned a title of ancient dioceses that no longer function are called titular bishops.

Former titular bishops of Allegheny include:

'Titular Bishops of seven suburbicarian sees'

During the fifteenth century a number of Latin bishops were appointed for Salmas, though they may have been titular bishops only.

They are part of the Conference, the titular bishops, emeritus, assistants and auxiliary staff of the dioceses following:

Titular Bishops (includes auxiliaries, curia staff, and diplomats)

During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, a number of titular bishops were appointed, but none of them had effective possession of the see.

In that year came the first Syro-Malabar titular bishops as vicars Apostolic to the top of the diocese.

Titular bishops and titular metropolitans are often appointed in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Titular bishops of Inis Cathaig have included:

Many of these, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries, were titular bishops of Methoni, Messenia (on the Peloponnesus).

It is not known when the see ceased to be a residential one for the Greek Orthodox Church; they frequently use the name for titular bishops.

He presides over the Holy Synod of Hierarchs of the church, consisting of 9 metropolitans and titular bishops.

In the Middle Ages it was confused with Antipatris, situated more inland, and it is under this name that some of its titular bishops are to be sought.

The Roman Curia before the reforms of Paul VI, which was mostly exclusive to Cardinals, and did not include many laymen, priests or titular bishops.

Finally, in 1896, three Roman-Syrian priests were consecrated as titular bishops, and sent to Travancore and Cochin as vicars apostolic.

Most cardinals are already bishops when appointed, the majority being archbishops of important archdioceses or patriarchates, the rest already serving as titular bishops in the Roman Curia.