Administrator in charge of large districts in Christian denominations
A diocesan bishop, within various Christian traditions, is a bishop or archbishop in pastoral charge of a diocese or archdiocese. In relation to other bishops, a diocesan bishop may be a suffragan, a metropolitan (if an archbishop) or a primate. They may also hold various other positions such as being a cardinal or patriarch.
Titular bishops in the Roman Catholic Church may be assistant bishops with special faculties, coadjutor bishops (these bishops are now named as coadjutors of the dioceses they will lead, and not as titular bishops), auxiliary bishops, nuncios or similar papal diplomats (usually archbishops), officials of the Roman Curia (usually for bishops as heads or deputies of departments who are not previous ordinaries), etc. They may also hold other positions such as cardinal. The see of titular bishop is only nominal, not pastoral- meaning he does not exercise final authority as the head bishop (the ordinary), or have the right to automatically succeed the aforementioned individual (the coadjutor), over an existing diocese or archdiocese or their Eastern rite equivalents, (arch-)eparchies. Titular bishops may be active or retired. Occasionally, as a priest, they may have been given a titular bishopric or archbishopric as an honor by the Pope, similar to when he names some cardinals.[1]
^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 Archived February 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
A diocesanbishop, within various Christian traditions, is a bishop or archbishop in pastoral charge of a diocese or archdiocese. In relation to other...
Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesanbishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally...
auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesanbishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also...
unbroken succession of bishops by the laying on of hands in the sacrament of holy orders. Diocesanbishops—known as eparchial bishops in the Eastern Catholic...
the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), pertains to the diocesanbishop or archbishop of a metropolis...
is to assist the diocesanbishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co-assister" in Latin) is a bishop himself, although...
The active bishops of the Church of England are usually either diocesanbishops or suffragan bishops. Several also hold portfolios of national responsibility...
another bishop. The typical role of a bishop is to provide pastoral governance for a diocese. Bishops who fulfill this function are known as diocesan ordinaries...
metropolitan bishops, diocesanbishops, bishops exarchs of the throne, suffragan bishops, auxiliary bishops, general bishops, and finally chorbishops. Bishops of...
bishops than there are functioning dioceses. Therefore, a priest appointed not to head a diocese as its diocesanbishop but to be an auxiliary bishop...
invested with regional jurisdiction over all diocesanbishops in North Macedonia, while former diocesanbishop (late Amfilohije Radović) of the Eparchy of...
The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesanbishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England. The bishop's seat (cathedra) is at Winchester Cathedral...
establishment of inter-diocesan ecclesiastical laws. A sobor (Church Slavonic: съборъ, "assembly") is a formal gathering or council of bishops together with other...
The following is a list of female Anglican bishops in diocesan, suffragan, area, and assistant roles. Katharine Jefferts Schori (Episcopal Church, 2006-2015)...
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Honolulu is the diocesanbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu in the United States, the Latin Church ecclesiastical...
assistant bishop in the Anglican Communion is a bishop appointed to assist a diocesanbishop. In the established Church of England, assistant bishops are usually...
but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesanbishops. The position is currently held by Andy John, Bishop of Bangor, since 2021. Unlike the Church...
leadership is always vested in a member of the clergy (a bishop at provincial and diocesan levels, and a priest (often termed a rector or pastor at the...
woman to become a diocesanbishop in the Church of England when she became the Bishop of Gloucester. She and Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, were...
in the Church of England to become a bishop when she was elected as Bishop of Waikato and joint diocesanbishop in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki...
diocesanbishop of the Diocese of Chicago held the title Bishop of Chicago. With the elevation of the diocese to an archdiocese in 1880, the diocesan...
highest official in a diocese or other particular church after the diocesanbishop or his equivalent in canon law. The title normally occurs only in Western...
that Leeds should be the diocesan see. Thus, the new diocese would be the Diocese of Leeds and its diocesanbishop the bishop of Leeds. Accordingly, none...
Spiritual are the bishops of the Church of England who sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Up to 26 of the 42 diocesanbishops and archbishops...
institutes, the Canon law (canon 603) recognizes also diocesan hermits under the direction of their bishop as members of the consecrated life. The same is true...
assigned to work in a parish by the diocesanbishop, where they are under the supervision of the parish pastors, or in diocesan ministries. Unlike most clerics...
bishop of Maidstone. Previously the bishop of Maidstone was an actual suffragan bishop working in the diocese, until it was decided at the diocesan synod...
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