titular see

English

Noun

titular see (plural titular sees)

1. An episocopal see which has no resident bishop in a former diocese that no longer functions.

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

Related terms

• titularly
• sedentary

Translations

type of episcopal see

• Dutch: titulair bisdom n

See also

• in partibus

Anagrams

• elutriates, tutelaries