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Choir dress of a cardinal, in scarlet Cardinals are senior members of the clergy of the Catholic Church. As titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, they serve as advisors to the pope, who is the bishop of Rome. They are typically ordained bishops and generally hold important roles within the church, such as leading prominent archdioceses or heading dicasteries within the Roman ...
List of Catholic bishops in the Philippines; List of Catholic bishops in the United States; List of Catholic bishops of India; List of Catholic dioceses (alphabetical) (including archdioceses) (in the world) List of Catholic dioceses (structured view) (including archdioceses) (in the world) List of living cardinals (sortable by name, country ...
Argentine Roman Catholic bishop [72] Felice Leonardo: 1915–2015: 100: Italian Roman Catholic bishop [73] Géry Leuliet: 1910–2015: 104: French Roman Catholic bishop [74] Albert Malbois: 1915–2017: 101: French Roman Catholic bishop [75] Bernard Joseph McLaughlin: 1912–2015: 102: American Roman Catholic bishop [76] Weweldeniye ...
An Eastern Catholic bishop of the Syro-Malabar Church holding the Mar Thoma Cross which symbolizes the heritage and identity of the Syrian Church of Saint Thomas Christians of India Johann Otto von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg in Bavaria, 1591–1598, carrying a crosier and wearing a mitre and pluviale.
The 266th bishop of Rome is Pope Francis, who was elected on 13 March 2013.The pope is the patriarch of the Latin Church, the largest of the Catholic Church's 24 autonomous churches.
In 2006, Benedict XVI renounced the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis). [1] In 2024, Pope Francis reinstated the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis), reversing the decision by the previous Pope Benedict XVI; the title reinstatement was meant to bring closer ties to the other Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox faith.
This is a list of notable former Catholic priests. Both religious and diocesan priests, and bishops, are included. Most persons on this list can fit into one of the following categories: Left the priesthood but remained Catholic (voluntary laicization) Left the priesthood and the Catholic Church altogether (voluntary laicization)
This is a historical list of all bishops of the Catholic Church whose sees were within the present-day boundaries of the United States, with links to the bishops who consecrated them. It includes only members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their predecessors. The number references the sequence of consecration.