This is the official list oftitular sees of theCatholic Church included in theAnnuario Pontificio.[1] Archiepiscopal sees are shown in bold.
The Italian-languageAnnuario Pontificio devotes some 200 pages to listing these sees, with up to a dozen names on each page. It gives their names in Latin (which are generally the names used also in English) as well as in Italian, and indicates the ancientRoman province to which most of them belonged or other geographical particulars, their status asmetropolitan see orsuffragan see (of episcopal or archiepiscopal rank), and basic biographical information about their current bishops.[2]
For nearly all titular seesin partibus infidelium (formerly Roman/Byzantine, presently Islamic countries):