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Office Christianity

emeritus bishop

episcopus emeritus la

Honorary title given to some retired bishops

  • Also called Bishop Emeritus, bishop, bishop Emeritus

Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 1 holder
  1. 455 CE – 17 March 493 CE Saint Patrick 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland
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