titular see

English

Noun

titular see (plural titular sees)

An episocopal see which has no resident bishop in a former diocese that no longer functions.
Most titular sees are defunct dioceses from the Roman empire days, mainly in presently mainly Muslim countries: Turkey, the Levant and Northern Africa

Related terms

Translations

type of episcopal see

Dutch: titulair bisdom n

See also

in partibus

Anagrams

elutriates, tutelaries

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