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Office Christianity

titular bishop

Episcopus titularis la

Bishop who is not in charge of a diocese, such as coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, bishops emeriti, vicars apostolic, nuncios, superiors of departments in the Roman Curia, and cardinal bishops of suburbicarian dioceses

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A seat,
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who held it.

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Succession in office

Everyone recorded as holding it

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

  • 44 holders
  • 639 overlapping pairs
What this means

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.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 15 July 1602 CE – 17 September 1602 CE Francis de Sales French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622) Has references
  2. 29 July 1658 CE – 29 October 1684 CE François Pallu French bishop Has references
  3. 11 April 1658 CE – 1 October 1674 CE François de Laval Catholic saint, First Bishop of Quebec Has references
  4. from 13 September 1677 CE Nicolas Steno Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (1638–1686) Has references
  5. from 11 June 1725 CE Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon French cardinal Has references
  6. from 20 June 1728 CE Frederick Charles of Schönborn Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (1674-1746) Has references
  7. from 1 December 1766 CE Ignacy Krasicki Polish writer and poet, Catholic archbishop Has references
  8. from 17 February 1777 CE Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil Italian cardinal (1718–1802) Has references
  9. from 1 October 1832 CE Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod French Roman Catholic bishop and saint (1782-1861) Has references
  10. from 12 May 1846 CE Guglielmo Massaia Catholic cardinal (1809-1889) Has references
  11. 29 July 1853 CE – 9 January 1857 CE Frederic Baraga Catholic missionary and bishop (1797-1868) Has references
  12. from 3 March 1868 CE James Gibbons Catholic cardinal (1834–1921) Has references
  13. from 28 January 1876 CE Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás Spanish author (1833-1909) Has references
  14. from 29 May 1877 CE James Gibbons Catholic cardinal (1834–1921) Has references
  15. from 2 December 1884 CE Francesco di Paola Cassetta Italian Catholic cardinal (1841–1919) Has references
  16. from 30 October 1884 CE Giovanni Cagliero Catholic cardinal (1838–1926) Has references
  17. from 30 June 1909 CE George Mundelein Catholic cardinal (1872-1939) Has references
  18. from 22 July 1921 CE Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini Catholic cardinal (1876-1958) Has references
  19. 30 July 1932 CE – 15 April 1939 CE Francis Spellman American Roman Catholic cardinal (1889–1967) Has references
  20. 11 July 1935 CE – 30 November 1937 CE Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian Armenian Cardinal Patriarch and Servant of God (1895–1971) Has references
  21. from 22 September 1937 CE Carlos Duarte Costa Brazilian bishop and saint Has references
  22. 12 June 1947 CE – 22 September 1948 CE Marcel Lefebvre French traditionalist Catholic archbishop Has references
  23. from 28 May 1951 CE Fulton J. Sheen American catholic bishop and television presenter (1895–1979) Has references
  24. from 2 September 1954 CE Jean-Marie Villot Roman Catholic cardinal (1905–1979) Has references
  25. 11 December 1956 CE – 5 January 1960 CE Bernardin Gantin Beninese Catholic prelate and Servant of God (1922–2008) Has references
  26. 4 July 1958 CE – 31 August 1958 CE John Paul II pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author Has references
  27. 31 August 1958 CE – 13 January 1964 CE John Paul II pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author Has references
  28. from 25 October 1960 CE Giovanni Colombo Catholic cardinal (1902-1992) Has references
  29. from 23 June 1961 CE Nasrallah Peter Sfeir Lebanese Catholic cardinal (1920-2019) Has references
  30. from 2 July 1962 CE Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy Catholic cardinal (1924–2014) Has references
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  1. Escudo de Carlos Oviedo from 21 March 1964 CE Carlos Oviedo Cavada Catholic cardinal (1927–1998) Has references
  2. from 15 February 1964 CE Franjo Kuharić Archbishop of Zagreb and cardinal. (1919–2002) Has references
  3. from 15 September 1965 CE Terence Cooke Catholic cardinal (1921–1983) Has references
  4. Coat of arms of Joseph Louis Bernardin 9 March 1966 CE – 21 November 1972 CE Joseph Bernardin American Roman Catholic priest, cardinal (1928–1996) Has references
  5. 5 April 1970 CE – 15 October 1974 CE Óscar Romero Salvadoran Catholic archbishop and saint (1917–1980) Has references
  6. from 22 March 1975 CE Cláudio Hummes Catholic cardinal (1934–2022) Has references
  7. 16 May 1983 CE – 28 June 1991 CE Camillo Ruini Catholic cardinal (1931–2026) Has references
  8. 18 October 1983 CE – 29 December 1993 CE Wilton Daniel Gregory American Cardinal Has references
  9. Coat of arms of Jorge Maria Mejia 8 March 1986 CE – 5 March 1994 CE Jorge María Mejía Argentine cardinal (1923-2014) Has references
  10. 25 June 1988 CE – 21 April 1999 CE André Vingt-Trois French Catholic cardinal (1942–2025) Has references
  11. 20 May 1992 CE – 3 June 1997 CE Pope Francis 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025) Has references
  12. from 22 February 1996 CE Liubomyr Huzar Catholic cardinal (1933–2017) Has references
  13. from 28 December 2001 CE Kevin Farrell Irish-American Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1947) Has references
  14. 18 January 2006 CE – 16 June 2010 CE Alessandro Carmelo Ruffinoni Italian priest Has references

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