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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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Succession in office

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Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.

  • 79 holders
  • 1,923 overlapping pairs
  • 3 undated
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Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

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

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