Though these sees are now seven ( Ostia and Velletri having been separated in 1914 ), there are only six cardinal bishops, since the Dean always adds the title of Ostia to his original suburbicarian diocese.

According to section 4 of Canon 350, the Cardinal Dean has " the title of the diocese of Ostia, together with that of any other church to which he already has a title.

" The Cardinal Dean, then, continues to hold the title of his suburbicarian diocese as well as being titular bishop of Ostia.

He was appointed as Cardinal-Bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Palestrina in 1986, and as Dean of the College of Cardinals had the additional title of Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, as the dean traditionally does, from 1993 to 2002 when he retired to move home to Benin ( He relinquished the title of the Ostia see when he retired .).

On several occasions St Bernard was begged to fight the innovator on the scene of his exploits, and in 1145, at the instance of the legate Alberic, cardinal bishop of Ostia, he set out, passing through the diocese of Angoulme and Limoges, sojourning for some time at Bordeaux, and finally reaching the heretical towns of Bergerac, Périgueux, Sarlat, Cahors and Toulouse.

The Vicar General of Rome also serves the same role for the suburbicarian diocese of Ostia, the traditional see of the Dean of the College of Cardinals, since it was merged with the diocese of Rome.

They receive the vows of the nuns of the abbey ; they may admit candidates to their order's novitiate ; they may send them to study ; and they may send them to do pastoral and / or missionary work and / or assist — to the extent allowed by canon and civil law — in the administration and ministry of a parish or diocese ( these activities could be inside or outside the community's territory ).

During the exercise of his duties he enhanced his reputation for humility by refusing to ride a horse — in accord with the dictates of the Dominican order — instead walking back and forth across his huge diocese.

In the past, the Bishop of Durham, known as a prince bishop, had extensive viceregal powers within his northern diocese — the power to mint money, collect taxes and raise an army to defend against the Scots.

All parishes in a geographical region belong to an eparchy ( — equivalent to a Western diocese ).

We therefore order you, on receipt of this letter, to take up residence in your diocese, so that — even if you are not competent to redress spiritual evils — you may at least minister to the temporal needs of the poor.

For ecclesiastical ( i. e. Church of England ) purposes, several areas of England were part of Welsh dioceses until disestablishment of the Church in Wales in 1920, the area around Oswestry, Shropshire — part of St Asaph diocese — being the largest.

Because Maryland was one of the few regions of the colonial United States that was predominantly Catholic, the apostolic prefecture was elevated to become the Diocese of Baltimore — the first diocese in the United States — on November 6, 1789.

The diocese of Palencia was but a name — a " titular see "— until Froila, Count of Villafruela, succeeded in retaking the area of the see in 921, but the true restorer of Christian power was Sancho III of Navarre.

The apostolic vicariate is distinguished from a territorial abbacy ( or " abbey nullius ") — an area not a diocese but under the direction of the abbot of a monastery.

" Much of Brown's work was given a Nihil obstat and an Imprimatur ( the " nihil obstat " is a statement by an official reviewer, appointed by a bishop, that " nothing stands in the way " of a book being given an imprimatur ; the " imprimatur ," which must normally be issued by a bishop of the diocese of publication, is the official endorsement — " let it be printed " — that a book contains nothing damaging to Catholic faith and morals ).

Born in East Mauch Chunk — present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania — Marzen studied at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio and was ordained in the fledgling diocese in the Hawaiian Islands in 1951 alongside his classmate, Msgr.

In central and northern Italy, and in Provence and Septimania, most of the old Roman cities had survived — even if grass grew in their streets — largely as administrative centers for a diocese or for the local representative of a distant kingly or imperial power.

; Titular bishop: A titular bishop is a bishop without a diocese.

An auxiliary bishop is a titular bishop, and he is to be appointed as a vicar general or at least as an episcopal vicar of the diocese in which he serves.

In the twelfth century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them being assigned a church in Rome as his titular church, or being linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome.

Later however, the Roman Catholic diocese was discontinued, and exists only in name as a titular metropolitan archbishopric, under the full name Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto to distinguish it from several other titular sees named Hadrianopolis.

The Crusaders made it the seat of a Latin rite diocese, and it remains a titular see.

At the consistory cardinals are generally assigned titular churches in the diocese of Rome, though Pope Paul VI abolished their functional involvement in the governance of these churches ; the cardinals formally " take possession " of these churches at a later date.

He was consecrated ( without a papal mandate ) by Dominique Marie Varlet, who had been consecrated by the pope as Coadjutor Bishop of Babylon, ( a titular see i. e. a diocese in name only ), who was visiting the Netherlands.

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a " dead diocese ".

At one time coadjutor bishops and archbishops were given titular sees, but they are now are raised to the diocese or archdiocese that they will oversee as coadjutor.

After the acceptance of his resignation, Duarte Costa was appointed titular bishop of Maura, an extinct diocese in Africa.

Among the fourteen titular holders of the Christian diocese are Philadelphus at the First Council of Nicaea, Severus of Constantinople and Theodore of Constantinople.

A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.

This is often ( though not always ) to a titular see, i. e. a diocese that no longer functionally exists.

In the Roman Catholic Church, a titular bishop is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese ( Canon 376 ).

Since part of being a bishop means being the head of a Church, titular sees serve that purpose for bishops without a diocese.

** A Vicar Apostolic ( normally a bishop of a titular see ), in charge of an apostolic vicariate, usually in a mission country, not yet ready to be made a diocese

In 1947, Adam was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Libreville and bishop of the titular see of Rhinocorura ; he become bishop of Libreville when it was elevated to a diocese in 1955, and he was made archbishop of the see in 1958.

Instead of having each of the more than one hundred cardinals kneel before the Pope individually to do him homage, twelve people, lay as well as clerical, did so: the senior Cardinal Bishop, the senior Cardinal Priest, the senior Cardinal Deacon, the bishop of Benedict's former suburbicarian diocese of Velletri-Segni, the priest serving as pastor of Benedict's former titular church when he was a Cardinal Priest, a deacon, a religious brother, a Benedictine nun, a married couple from Korea, and a young woman from Sri Lanka and a young man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, each of whom had been recently confirmed.

From being chancellor of the diocese of London as Dean of St Paul's, he became chaplain and confessor to Edward III, whom he attended during his wars in France at the Battle of Crécy, where he preached at the victory Mass, and at the subsequent siege of Calais.

The Forest of Dean then came under the control of the diocese of Hereford.

The " Buzzard " was added by the Dean of Lincoln, in whose diocese the town lay in the 12th century.

In the 1980s, a financial crisis in the diocese caused the Dean and Chapter to consider selling the Mappi Mundi.

He was Dean of Lichfield by 11 April 1214, at which time he held a prebend in the diocese of London.

It falls within the Canterbury diocese, and has as patron the Dean and Chapter of Christ College, Oxford.

Under the Cathedrals Act of 1840, the Warden and Fellows of the collegiate church of Manchester were translated into Dean and Canons, in preparation for becoming the cathedral of a new diocese of Manchester — which was effected in 1847.

The Church of Ireland bishop is unique in having two diocesan cathedrals within a single diocese, with one Dean and chapter between them: the Cathedral Church of Saint Macartin, Enniskillen and the Cathedral Church of Saint Macartan, Clogher.

The present Dean is the Very Reverend Geoffrey Marshall, who was appointed in 2008, who succeeded the Very Reverend John Davies who became Bishop of the diocese.

Each diocese usually has a cathedral Dean, in charge of the cathedral church, and a series of Area Deans to supervise the clergy in a given geographical area.

He then became a Fellow and Lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1911, becoming Dean in 1914. Having been ordained as an Anglican priest, he returned to Australia as rector of Christchurch, Newcastle and Dean of the diocese.