titular see

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
An episocopal see which has no resident bishop but serves (regardless whether it has a cathedral) as title of a nominal, not pastoral, diocese ((arch)bishopric), for a titular bishop or for an titular archbishop (in which case it's a titular archiepiscopal see)

Most titular sees are defunct dioceses from the Roman empire days, mainly in presently mainly Muslim countries: Turkey, the Levant and Northern Africa.

titular see

    الواصلة

    ti·tu·lar see

    التركية النطق

    tîçılır si

    النطق

    /ˈtəʧələr ˈsē/ /ˈtɪʧəlɜr ˈsiː/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    () titular (from Latin titularis, from titulum 'title' + -aris '-ary') + see (from Middle English se, from Old French, from Latin sedes 'seat', akin to sedere 'to sit')
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