Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place.
Titular (arch)bishops often serve as auxiliary bishops, as officials in the Roman Curia, in the Patriarchal Curias of Eastern Churches, as papal diplomatic envoys (notably apostolic nuncios or apostolic delegates), or head certain missionary pre-diocesan jurisdictions (notably as apostolic vicar, which as of 2019 no longer gets a titular see ...
Titular Metropolitan: The Most Reverend (Rev.) Metropolitan John of Terirem, His Eminence, Your Eminence; Note: Some Metropolitans use the style "The Very Most Reverend" (V. Most Rev.) Bishop / Episcope: The Right Reverend (Rt. Rev.) Bishop John of Terirem, Bishop John, His Grace, Your Grace Titular/Auxiliary Bishop: same as for Bishops, above
This is the official list of titular sees of the Catholic Church included in the Annuario Pontificio. [1] Archiepiscopal sees are shown in bold. The Italian-language Annuario Pontificio devotes some 200 pages to listing these sees, with up to a dozen names on each page.
On July 6, 2010, McElroy was appointed an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and titular bishop of Gemellae in Byzacena by Pope Benedict XVI. On September 7, 2010, McElroy received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop George Niederauer, with Archbishop Emeritus Quinn and Bishop John Wester serving as co-consecrators. [12]
An Apostolic Exarch (normally a bishop of a titular see), in charge of an apostolic exarchate—not yet ready to be made an eparchy—for the faithful of an Eastern Catholic Church in an area that is situated outside the home territory of that Eastern Church.
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbishop" (intermediary rank) or "titular bishop" (lowest rank), which normally goes by the status conferred on the titular see.
The coat of arms used by Bishop Grob as Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Pope Francis appointed Grob as an auxiliary bishop of Chicago and titular bishop of Abora on September 11, 2020. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On November 13, 2020, Grob was consecrated at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago by Cupich, with Auxiliary Bishops John R. Manz and Joseph N. Perry ...