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Antony Padiyara, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, 23 April 1985− 11 November 1999 [note 4] Varkey Vithayathil, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, 23 December 1999 − 1 April 2011; George Alencherry Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, 25 May 2011 − 7 December 2023 [12]
He is the first Presiding Bishop born outside North America since Charles W. Nibley vacated the post in 1925, and the first-ever Presiding Bishop not from an Anglophone country. Caussé, who was born in Bordeaux , was raised as a Latter-day Saint: his parents joined the church when he was six months old, having recently moved to France from ...
The bishop or eparch of a see, even if he does not also hold a title such as archbishop, metropolitan, major archbishop, patriarch or pope, is the centre of unity for his diocese or eparchy, and, as a member of the College of Bishops, shares in responsibility for governance of the whole church (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 886).
Relatedly, those with jurisdiction take precedence over those with titular, ad personam, or emeritus titles, so someone serving in a specific office (e.g., diocesan bishop) has precedence over someone with a titular claim to the same rank (e.g., titular bishop) or someone who used to serve in an equivalent office (e.g., a retired bishop).
Syro-Malabar Church: Major Archbishop Mar Raphael Thattil; Syro-Malankara Catholic Church: Major Archbishop Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis Catholicos; Romanian Greek-Catholic Church: Major Archbishop Lucian Mureșan; Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church: Metropolitan William C. Skurla; Hungarian Greek Catholic Church: Bishop Péter Fülöp Kocsis
Raphael Thattil (Syriac: ܡܳܪܝ ܪܰܦܳܐܝܶܠ ܛܰܛܺܝܠ) (born 21 April 1956) is an Indian Major Archbishop of the Catholic Church who serves as the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Eastern Catholic Church, and as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly since January 2024.
This article lists the presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The included persons have served as President of the Church and prophet, seer, and revelator of the LDS Church.
1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the ...