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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"....
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. There are over 2,000 titular sees.
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- NatchesiumNatchesiumNatchesium or Natchez is a Roman Catholic Diocese. As it is a titular see, it is not an active diocese. The diocese was founded on July 28, 1837 and originally was the Catholic diocese for the entire state of Mississippi. Even though the diocese was officially created in 1837, the first bishop of...
- NazarethArchbishop of NazarethThe Archbishop of Nazareth was one of the major suffragans of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem during the crusades.The ancient diocese was located at Scythopolis, known as Bethsan to the crusaders. It was the metropolis of Palaestina Secunda. After Nazareth was captured following the First Crusade,...
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- Oca (Ocoeus), Roman Catholic Archdiocese of BurgosRoman Catholic Archdiocese of BurgosThe Archdiocese of Burgos has been since the tenth century an episcopal see of Spain, to which in the eleventh century the ancient Sees of Oca and Valpuesta were transferred. In 1574 Pope Gregory XIII raised it to metropolitan rank, at the request of King Philip II...
- OescusOescusOescus, or Palatiolon Palatiolum, was an ancient town in Moesia, northwest of the modern Bulgarian city of Pleven, near the village of Gigen. It is a Daco-Moesian toponym. Ptolemy calls it a Triballian town, but it later became Roman...
- OmbiOmbiOmbi is a titular see in the Catholic church; the see corresponds to the city now known as Kom Ombo in Egypt.Its main claim to fame is that Karol Wojtyła was titular bishop of Ombi from 1958 until 1963, when he was appointed Archbishop of Kraków.In Polish it seems to be called Ombria Ombi is a...
- Oregon CityOregon City, OregonOregon City was the first city in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated. It is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon...
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- ParalusParalus (place)Paralus was an Episcopal see, now only titular, sited at one of the seven mouths of the Nile, Egypt. Its modern location is Lake Burollos.-External links:* Catholic Encyclopedia...
- ParlaisParlais-History:As a Roman colony it was called Julia Augusta Parlais, and money was coined under this title. Ptolemy calls it Paralais and places it in Lycaonia . Kiepert identified it with Barla, in the Ottoman vilayet of Koniah, but W. M...
- ParoecopolisParoecopolisParoecopolis is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Macedonia, a suffragan of Thessalonica.It is mentioned by Ptolemy as being in Sintice, a part of Macedonia, and by Phlegon . Hierocles and Constantine Porphyrogenitus call it Parthicopolis, but the second locates it in Thrace...
- ParteniaParteniaPartenia is a Roman Catholic titular see in present-day Sétif Province, Algeria. Formerly a major city, the episcopal see was abandoned and consumed by the Sahara desert in the 5th century...
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- PellaPellaPella , an ancient Greek city located in Pella Prefecture of Macedonia in Greece, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.-Etymology:...
- PetinessusPetinessusPetinessus is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Galatia Secunda .This city is mentioned by Strabo; Ptolemy; Hierocles; and Stephanus Byzantius, s. v...
- PhacusaPhacusaPhacusa is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was a suffragan of Pelusium, in Augustamnica Prima.Ptolemy makes it the suffragan of the nomos of Arabia in Lower Egypt; Strabo places Phacusa at the beginning of the canal which empties into the Red Sea; it is described also by Peutinger's...
- PharbaetusPharbaetusSheten or Šetennu, also known by the Greco-Roman name of Pharbaethus or Pharbaetus, was a town in the Nile Delta, capital of the nome of Pharbaethites/Lapt in Lower Egypt....
- PhilippiPhilippiPhilippi was a city in eastern Macedonia, established by Philip II in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman conquest...
- Philippopolis in Thracia
- PoglaPoglaPogla is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Pamphylia Secunda.Money was coined with the pagan pogleon.. The city was known also as ta pogla....
- PolybotusPolybotusPolybotus or Polybotos , modern Bolvadin, Turkey, was an ancient and medieval city in Phrygia Salutaris. The city's bishop was a suffragan of Synnada and the see remains a Catholic titular see-History:...
- PolystylumPolystylumPolystylum is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was in Macedonia Secunda, a suffragan of Philippi. The see corresponds to modern Bouloustra.- Overview :...
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- Sault Sainte MarieRoman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, MichiganThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. As it is a titular see, it is not an active diocese.-History:...
, MichiganMichiganMichigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. (There is also an active diocese of the same nameRoman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, OntarioThe Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario was decreed on September 16, 1904 and is formed by the southern portions of the districts of Thunder Bay, Algoma, Sudbury and Nipissing....
in OntarioOntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
). - SideSideSide was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey...
- SamsunSamsunSamsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:...
- SatrianumSatrianumThe Diocese of Satrianum or Satriano is now a Roman Catholic titular see, that is, an episcopal see that is no longer a geographical diocese. It takes its name from a now destroyed town situated in Lucania and was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Salerno. The adjectival form of the Latin...
- SuaciaSuaciaThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Svač is an titular see of the Roman Catholic ChurchOnce an active diocese in Montenegro, it was centered in the town of Svač and under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Antivari during the Byzantine era....