titular in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Titular may refer to: Title character in a narrative work, the character referred to in its title Titular...
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...
The titular nation is the single dominant ethnic group in a particular state, typically after which the state was named. The term was first used by Maurice...
A titular ruler, or titular head, is a person in an official position of leadership who possesses few, if any, actual powers. Sometimes a person may inhabit...
In the Catholic Church, a titular church is a church in Rome that is assigned to a member of the clergy who is created a cardinal. These are Catholic...
of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbishop" (intermediary rank) or "titular bishop" (lowest rank), which normally...
described using the adjective "titular". For example, the title character of Dracula can be referred to as the book's "titular vampire", the title character...
(120 mi) north of Cairo. It was a Catholic bishopric and is a multiple titular see. It is also a member of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities...
Church retained Chalcedon as a titular see with archiepiscopal rank, with known incumbents since 1356. Among the titular bishops named to this see were...
special form of religious observance. A term in some ways comparable is "titular", which is applicable only to a church or institution. Although Islam has...
the Catholic Church as a titular see. Rome suppressed the see formally c. 1600, but immediately transformed it into a titular archbishopric Amasea, of...
residential bishopric, Callipolis is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see. Cyrillus fl. 431 Harmonius fl. 538 Melchisedec fl. 787 Joseph Paulus...
on the west coast of Sardinia, Italy. It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see and an archaeological site near the village of San Giovanni di Sinis...
military, titular and honorary ranks are two different types of special military ranks. Unlike the normal rank in the Indonesian military, titular and honorary...
given a dukedom. In 1772, King Gustav III reinstated the appointment of titular dukes but as a non-hereditary title for his brothers. Since then, all Swedish...
countries, and even (earlier and/or later) other Titular Latin patriarchates (Jerusalem, Constantinople). The titular see would have its share of disputed nominations...
"saviour"), among these : Apollonia, Cyrenaica, later bishopric and now Latin titular see called Sozusa in Libya; modern (Mars-)Susa, Libya Sozusa in Palaestina...
The Titular Patriarch of the East Indies (Latin: Patriarcha Indiarum Orientalium; Patriarchatus Indiarum Orientalium for Titular Patriarchate of the East...
the West Indies – a titular patriarchal see, vacant since 1963. The Latin Patriarch of Antioch – title abolished in 1964. The titular Latin Patriarch of...
Land newly conquered by the First Crusade. From 1374 to 1847 it was a titular see, with the patriarchs of Jerusalem being based at the Basilica di San...
the 12th century. Tarsus is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees as a metropolitan see of both the Latin, the Maronite and the Melkite...
reconquest of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261, whereupon it became a titular see. The office was abolished in 1964. In the early middle ages, there...
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...
7th to the 10th centuries. Its titular bishops include Stephen Peter Alencastre (1924–1940). Arabissus is now a titular see of the Catholic Church. Lund...
century Latin bishops of the see, which under the name Dora is still a titular see of the Catholic Church. Tantura rose in importance in the mid-18th...
Church, a member of the clergy who is created a cardinal is assigned a titular church in Rome, Italy. These are Catholic churches in the city, within...
Arab-Islamic rule, it was revived by the Crusaders and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. In early Christian times, Lydda was a prosperous Jewish town[citation...
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