Titular may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Title character
The title character in a narrative work is one who is named or referred to in the title of the work. In a performed work such as a play or film, the performer who plays the title character is said to have the title role of the piece. The title of ...
in a narrative work, the character referred to in its title
Religion
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Titular (Catholicism), a cardinal who holds a titulus, one of the main churches of Rome
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Titular bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox a ...
, a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese
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Titular church
In the Catholic Church, a titular church is a church in Rome that is assigned to a member of the clergy who is created a cardinal. These are Catholic churches in the city, within the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Rome, that serve as honorary de ...
, a church in Rome assigned or assignable to one of the cardinals
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Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbis ...
, an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions
Other uses
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Titular nation, the single dominant ethnic group in the state, typically after which the state was named
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Titular ruler, a person in an official position of leadership who possesses few, if any, actual powers
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Pretender
A pretender is someone who claims to be the rightful ruler of a country although not recognized as such by the current government. The term is often used to suggest that a claim is not legitimate.Curley Jr., Walter J. P. ''Monarchs-in-Waiting'' ...
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Nominal (disambiguation)
Nominal may refer to:
Linguistics and grammar
* Nominal (linguistics), one of the parts of speech
* Nominal, the adjectival form of "noun", as in "nominal agreement" (= "noun agreement")
* Nominal sentence, a sentence without a finite verb
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Titulus (disambiguation)
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