Should a titular perform a jurisdictional function, he uses delegated jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of a diocesan is ordinary. All actual jurisdiction in titular sees the pope reserves to himself, and exercises through the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda. Titulars, as such, have not, and do not exercise, power of order and jurisdiction, in and over their titular sees. Diocesan bishops have and exercise ( de jure) full power of order and jurisdiction, in and over the diocese committed to their exclusive care by the pope. Hence, there are two principal classes of bishops, the residential, or diocesan or, local, or ordinary and the non-residential, or titular. Actual government requires residence, potential does not.
According to the present ecclesiastical discipline no bishop can be consecrated without title to a certain and distinct diocese which he governs either actually or potentially. Auxiliary Bishop, a bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is unable to perform the pontifical functions or whose diocese is so extensive that it requires the labors of more than one or whose episcopal see has attached to it a royal or imperial office requiring protracted presence at court.
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