List of titular sees (B-I)
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This is an incomplete list of titular see
s of the Roman Catholic Church
. There are over 2,000 titular sees.
Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular bishop", "titular metropolitan", or "titular archbishop"....
s of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
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. There are over 2,000 titular sees.
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- BardstownRoman Catholic Diocese of BardstownThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown was established on April 8, 1808, along with the dioceses of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, out of the territory of the Baltimore Diocese, the first Catholic diocese in the US. When founded, the Bardstown Diocese included most of Kentucky, Tennessee,...
(moved to LouisvilleLouisville, KentuckyLouisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
in 1841; now the Archdiocese of LouisvilleRoman Catholic Archdiocese of LouisvilleThe Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville consists of twenty-four counties in Central Kentucky, USA, covering . It is the seat of the Metropolitan Province of Louisville, which comprises the states of Kentucky and Tennessee...
) - BasilinopolisBasilinopolisBasilinopolis is a Catholic titular see. The original see, in Asia Minor, was a small village in Bithynia Prima, which then obtained the rank of a city under, or perhaps shortly before, Julian the Apostate, whose mother was Basilina....
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- CaesareaArchbishop of CaesareaThe Archbishop of Caesarea was one of the major suffragans of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem during the Crusades. The Bishop of Caesarea became metropolitan of Palestine in the early 3rd century but after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 he was subordinate to the Patriarch of Jerusalem...
- CaesaropolisCaesaropolisCaesaropolis is a Byzantine city and a Catholic titular see on the coast of eastern Macedonia.It was founded in 836 by the Caesar Alexios Mosele to consolidate Byzantine control over the Slavic tribes of the area....
- CaloeCaloeCaloe is a Catholic titular see. Located in Asia Minor, the original see is mentioned as Kaloe, and Keloue in inscriptions of the third century, Kalose in Hierocles's Synecdemos ; as Kalloe, Kaloe, and Kolone in Parthey's Notitiæ episcopatuum, where it figures from the sixth to the twelfth or...
- CamachusCamachusCamachus is a Catholic titular see. The original see was in Armenia, and does not appear in ecclesiastical history before the seventh century. The true primitive name seems to have been Camacha. Camachus or Camache are later forms...
- CaprulaeCaorleCaorle is a coastal town in the province of Venice, Veneto, Italy, located between the estuaries of the Livenza and Lemene rivers. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea between two other famous touristic towns, Eraclea and Bibione.-History:...
- CanopusCanopus, EgyptCanopus was an Ancient Egyptian coastal town, located in the Nile Delta. Its site is in the eastern outskirts of modern-day Alexandria, around 25 kilometres from the centre of that city....
- CapraCapra (titular see)The see of Capra is a titular bishopric in the Roman Catholic Church. The see is located in Mauretania Caesariensis .-List of bishops:...
- CasiumCasiumCasium is an Catholic titular see. The original see was in Lower Egypt, not far from Pelusium, and near the sandhills known by Greek geographers as Kasion Oros, to-day El-Katieh, or El-Kas....
- CestraCestraCestra is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Asia Minor, but the site has not yet been identified.Hierocles , Georgius Cyprius Cestra (Cestrus) is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Asia Minor, but the site has not yet been identified.Hierocles (709), Georgius...
- ChariopolisChariopolisChariopolis is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Thrace. Chariopolis is now Hayrabolu, Turkey.Nothing is known about this city during antiquity. In 1087 it was plundered by Tselgou and Solomon, Kings of the Patzinaces and of the Hungarians...
- CidyessusCidyessusCidyessus is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese of Kidyessos in Asia Minor has as its see a city of some importance, west of Ammonia in West-Central Phrygia, in the territory of the Setchanli Ova, or Mouse Plain; this large and fertile valley projects far into Phrygia Salutaris, but the...
- CircesiumCircesiumCircesium was an ancient city in Osrhoene, corresponding to the modern city of Buseira, in the region of Deir ez-Zor in Syria, at the confluence of the Khabur River with the Euphrates.- History :...
- CisamusCisamusCisamus is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Crete, with see at modern Kissamos. As a harbour on the north-west coast of Crete, it served Aptera as a port of entry.-Bishops:...
- CitharizumCitharizumCitharizum is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese lay in Roman Armenia; the city was situated in Asthianene or Balabitene, a region between Masius and Anti-Taurus, north of Commagene and Mesopotamia. It is identified with the modern Keterig....
- ConcordiaRoman Catholic Diocese of Concordia, KansasThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Concordia was founded on August 2, 1887, by Pope Leo XIII. On December 23, 1947, the Diocese was renamed the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina. In 1995, the Diocese of Concordia was restored as a titular see.-Notes:...
- ConstantinopleLatin Patriarch of ConstantinopleThe Latin Patriarch of Constantinople was an office established as a result of Crusader activity in the Near East. The title should not be confused with that of the Patriarch of Constantinople, an office which existed before and after....
- CotennaCotennaCotenna is a Catholic titular see. The original see was in Asia Minor. Strabo mentions the Katenneis in Pisidia adjoining Selge and the tribe of Homonades...
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- GindarusGindarusGindarus is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Syria Prima, in the Patriarchate of Antioch. It is now Jendires, not far from Kal'at Semaan, the monastery of Simon Stylites....
- Grass ValleyRoman Catholic Diocese of Grass ValleyThe Diocese of Grass Valley was a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church located in northeastern California, United States. The diocese also included most of Nevada, and, early in its history, Utah and part of Colorado.-History:...
(reorganized to SacramentoSacramento, CaliforniaSacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
, now mostly the Diocese of SacramentoRoman Catholic Diocese of SacramentoThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States...
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