Titular may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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  • Title character 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
    • Titular bishop, a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese
    • Titular church, a church in Rome assigned or assignable to one of the cardinals
    • Titular see, 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
  • Titular ruler, a person in an official position of leadership who possesses few, if any, actual powers

See also

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