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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Titular Bishops
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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are bishops with no stated charge, but who are bishops inpartibus infidelium. The custom arose in the 12th and 13th centuries in the assigning of bishops to those parts which, though once Christianized, had at length fallen under Saracen dominion. The Church of Rome adopts the same custom, and has bishops of Tarsus, Ephesus, Aleppo, etc. This. Church has 229 titulars. The primitive Church made it a law that no one should be ordained at large, but should have a specific charge. "This rule concerned bishops as well as the inferior clergy; for the nullatenenses of later ages, as Panormita calls titular and utopian bishops, were rarely known in the primitive Church."
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Titular Bishops'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​t/titular-bishops.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Titular Bishops'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​t/titular-bishops.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.