Titular bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a
Catholic Church
In the
Since 1970, there are two more exceptions. Diocesan bishops who resign their see or are transferred to a non-diocesan appointment are no longer habitually transferred to a titular see. Instead, they take the title Bishop (or Archbishop) Emeritus of the last see. Also, coadjutors are no longer named to titular sees, instead taking the title Coadjutor Bishop (or Coadjutor Archbishop) of the see they will inherit. In other cases titular bishops still take a titular see.
Beginning in 2019, titular sees are no longer being assigned to new Vicars Apostolic.
When
Cardinal Bishops of
Occasionally, the transfer of a diocesan bishop to a titular see has been used by the
Eastern Orthodox Church
Titular bishops and titular metropolitans are often appointed in the
See also
- Catholic Church hierarchy
- Titular archbishop
- List of Catholic titular sees
References
- ^ Code of Canon Law (1983), canon 376. Quote=Bishops to whom the care of some diocese is entrusted are called diocesan; others are called titular
- ^ "Bishop Francis Joseph Green". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ "Bishop Gerald Frederick Kicanas". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ "Angelo Cardinal Sodano". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ "Bishop Marcello Semeraro". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ Kiminas 2009, pp. 6, 26–28, 49–50, 93, 140–143, 153, 163, 167, 172, 193, 215.
- ^ Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Literature
- Codex Iuris Canonici (Code of Canon Law), Vatican City: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1983.
- Kiminas, Demetrius (2009). The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs. Wildside Press LLC.