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diocesan bishop

Episcopus dioecesanus la

Bishop in pastoral charge of a diocese, as opposed to a titular bishop

  • Also called eparchial bishop, residential bishop
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Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.

  • 79 holders
  • 1,923 overlapping pairs
  • 3 undated
  1. 302 CE – 305 CE Januarius Bishop of Naples (232-305)
  2. 372 CE Gregory of Nazianzus Christian saint and theologian (c. 329 – 390)
  3. from 465 CE Padarn 6th‑century Welsh bishop and Christian saint active during the Age of the Saints in Wales
  4. from 692 CE Wilfrid Christian saint, Bishop of York from 664 to 678
  5. from 791 CE Ludger Bishop of Münster in Westfalen
  6. 1 October 847 CE – 851 CE Ebbo French archbishop
  7. from 852 CE Swithun English Roman Catholic bishop of Winchester and saint
  8. from 935 CE Conrad of Constance Bishop and saint
  9. from 957 CE Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury and saint
  10. from 984 CE Ælfheah of Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury and saint (c.953-1012)
  11. from 993 CE Bernward of Hildesheim German Roman Catholic bishop of Hildesheim
  12. from 1077 CE Gundulf Norman monk and Bishop of Rochester
  13. 1090 CE – 1115 CE Ivo of Chartres French abbot and bishop of Chartres (c.1040–1116)
  14. from 11 October 1129 CE Henry of Blois Bishop of Winchester (c. 1096 – 1171)
  15. from 1138 CE Otto of Freising Austrian medieval chronicler (1112 ca. – 1158)
  16. from 1149 CE Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims French archbishop of Reims from 1161 to 1175
  17. from 1151 CE Geoffrey of Monmouth Historian and Bishop of St Asaph, Wales (c.1095–1155)
  18. from 1198 CE Albert of Riga bishop (1160s–1229)
  19. from 1235 CE Otto III van Holland Bishop of Utrecht
  20. from 28 March 1295 CE Clement V pope of the Catholic Church from 1305 to 1314 (1264–1314)
  21. from 1 August 1331 CE Giovanni Visconti Archbishop & Lord of Milan
  22. from 17 November 1351 CE Jan Očko of Vlašim Catholic cardinal
  23. from 8 June 1356 CE Philippe of Alençon French cardinal
  24. 5 October 1386 CE – 24 April 1388 CE Alexander V Catholic cardinal and antipope (1339-1410)
  25. 1389 CE – 1414 CE Pierre d'Ailly French theologian and astrologer (1351–1420)
  26. from 2 April 1395 CE Pierre d'Ailly French theologian and astrologer (1351–1420)
  27. 1 August 1495 CE – 3 December 1498 CE Ruprecht of the Palatinate German bishop (1481-1504)
  28. 24 April 1510 CE – 23 March 1552 CE Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme French cardinal
  29. from 2 July 1519 CE Paul III pope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 (1468–1549)
  30. from 16 March 1524 CE Henry of the Palatinate bishop of Utrecht
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  1. from 5 January 1541 CE Henry of the Palatinate bishop of Utrecht
  2. 19 March 1550 CE – 18 November 1551 CE Ippolito II d'Este Catholic cardinal
  3. from 1 May 1550 CE Luigi d'Este Catholic cardinal
  4. from 5 September 1561 CE Francesco Alciati Italian cardinal
  5. from 18 October 1566 CE Ernest of Bavaria Roman Catholic bishop (1554-1612)
  6. 1605 CE – 29 April 1624 CE Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)
  7. 27 October 1608 CE – 17 July 1617 CE Urban VIII 235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644 (1568–1644)
  8. 26 January 1625 CE – 11 December 1628 CE Antonio Marcello Barberini Italian cardinal
  9. 8 January 1635 CE – February 1652 CE Alexander VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
  10. 13 July 1644 CE – 6 June 1665 CE Carlo Carafa della Spina apostolic nuncio
  11. 5 November 1645 CE – 10 December 1679 CE Francesco Barberini Italian cardinal (1597-1679)
  12. 4 April 1650 CE – 6 March 1656 CE Innocent XI pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689
  13. from 29 August 1669 CE Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch Hungarian cardinal
  14. 13 September 1669 CE – 31 October 1671 CE Jacques Bénigne Bossuet French bishop and theologian (1627-1704)
  15. from 24 February 1679 CE Louis Antoine de Noailles Catholic cardinal (1651-1729)
  16. from 21 June 1680 CE Louis Antoine de Noailles Catholic cardinal (1651-1729)
  17. from 9 April 1685 CE Fabrizio Paolucci Catholic cardinal (1651-1726)
  18. from 4 November 1685 CE Joseph Clemens of Bavaria Duke, Roman Catholic archbishop (1671-1723)
  19. from 23 February 1727 CE John Theodore of Bavaria Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
  20. from 4 January 1759 CE Józef Andrzej Załuski Polish bishop (1702-1774)
  21. 8 March 1816 CE – 10 September 1816 CE Leo XII Pope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829
  22. from 7 August 1841 CE Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert Catholic cardinal (1802-1886)
  23. from 12 April 1845 CE Sisto Riario Sforza Italian cardinal (1810–1877)
  24. 4th from 30 July 1872 CE James Gibbons Catholic cardinal (1834–1921)
  25. 31 July 1884 CE – 15 May 1888 CE John Ireland Catholic archbishop (1838–1918)
  26. from 19 June 1899 CE Andrey Sheptytsky Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1865-1944)
  27. from 30 December 1911 CE Carlos María de la Torre Ecuadorian Catholic cardinal (1873–1968)
  28. from 21 April 1917 CE Iuliu Hossu Cardinal, Romanian Greek-Catholic Bishop of Cluj-Gherla, Martyr and Blessed (1885-1970)
  29. 5th 21 August 1919 CE – 20 December 1926 CE Carlos María de la Torre Ecuadorian Catholic cardinal (1873–1968)
  30. from 22 April 1920 CE Raffaele Rossi Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1876–1948)
  31. 2nd 4 July 1924 CE – 22 September 1937 CE Carlos Duarte Costa Brazilian bishop and saint
  32. 1st 1925 CE – 1926 CE August Hlond archbishop, cardinal, primate of Poland (1881–1948)
  33. 30 November 1937 CE – 25 August 1962 CE Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian Armenian Cardinal Patriarch and Servant of God (1895–1971)
  34. from 13 March 1943 CE Maximos V Hakim Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (1908–2001)
  35. 21 June 1948 CE – 17 November 1966 CE Giuseppe Pizzardo Catholic cardinal (1877-1970)
  36. 16 June 1954 CE – 1 December 1966 CE Maurice Feltin Catholic cardinal (1883–1975)
  37. from 5 March 1956 CE Agnelo Rossi Catholic cardinal (1913-1995)
  38. 1st from 15 February 1966 CE Stephen Kim Sou-hwan South Korean Roman Catholic cardinal and Servant of God
  39. 21 October 1966 CE – 6 October 1969 CE Fulton J. Sheen American catholic bishop and television presenter (1895–1979)
  40. 22 November 1967 CE – 22 November 2000 CE Maximos V Hakim Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (1908–2001)
  41. 1st 29 May 1969 CE – 6 October 1990 CE René Dupont French Roman Catholic prelate (1929–2025)
  42. 4th from 22 October 1973 CE Bernard Francis Law Catholic cardinal (1931–2017)
  43. 2nd from 29 December 1975 CE Cláudio Hummes Catholic cardinal (1934–2022)
  44. 30 November 1998 CE – 13 March 2013 CE Pope Francis 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
  45. 29 November 2000 CE – 6 May 2017 CE Gregory III Laham Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
  46. 6 July 2011 CE – 26 June 2019 CE Alessandro Carmelo Ruffinoni Italian priest

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