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Auxiliary bishops also exist in the Eastern Orthodox Church. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 22:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

will need rewording

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I find:

"According to canon law, no bishop can be ordained without title to a certain and distinct episcopal see which he governs either actually or potentially, therefore auxiliary bishops are titular bishops to sees that no longer exist."

OK, but there are now 2 exceptions to this idea that every bishop has title to a distinct see:

1. coadjutor (arch)bishop; simply refer to the see of the (arch)bishop whose coadjutor the subject bishop is

2. (arch)bishop emeritus; here, we use the last diocesan title the (arch)bishop had, with the word "emeritus" inserted.

This article is about auxiliary bishops. With rare exceptions, if a man becomes an auxiliary bishop, it would be his first assignment as a bishop, thus at that time he would never have been bishop of a diocese. So he is designated as titular bishop of ___. An exception I know of is Lawrence Harold Welsh, who was Bishop of Spokane and later was auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Curial bishop

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If "curial bishop" is used for auxiliary in an Eastern Catholic diocese, this needs to be worked in. Carlm0404 (talk) 09:30, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]