Orthodox Church
The granting of titular sees is occasionally practised in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
One reason is to avoid causing offense or confusion when an Orthodox bishop serves a place which is also the see of a bishop of a different denomination: the Orthodox bishop in Oxford, England, is titled Bishop of Diokleia; the Russian Orthodox diocese of the United Kingdom is the Diocese of Sourozh.
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