"Titular" Status

        Assigned Episcopal distinctions within the mortal Ecclesiastical domain are often titular. They are created after the fact and are, therefore, subject to the qualification of their nature -- such as being referred to as "titular."  The Patriarchate of Constantinople in Eastern Orthodoxy is excepted, due to the extant  geographical location of the See [any paronyms for the City notwithstanding] and for the same reason that the Royal and Imperial Byzantine House is not titular, as shown in the next paragraph.  Episcopal titles that define actual geographical jurisdictional space are excepted as well.  Royal status in parallel form is also subject to qualification, based on the facts causing its existence.  A royal house accepted by public will -- whether self-installed or created by public will –  when deposed by the will of those ruled, is in effect and thereafter devoid of the privilege to be considered royal: it reverts to the status of conventional citizenship.  Under the very best of circumstances it may be attributed some form of titular attribute.  [Blood claims are conditional, since such are preempted by the public will.  Otherwise stated, does one's blood -- whether of a derelict or of an  achiever -- become transformed upon sudden acclamation to kingship?  Even blood claims, therefore, are subject to the rigor of pertinent acceptance.]

        The case of Byzantium is as follows: Byzantine Royal and Imperial presence is an a priori condition that was not denied and which has remained ingrained in the mind and soul of the people.  The denier and destroyer was an exogenous force (from both West and East).  The event did not interrupt the historical fusion between the people and their leadership: only their ambiance was disturbed, but never their bond.  They perished together at the Walls [of Constantinople] in defense of their way of life.  A parallel instance is a long abiding marriage of a couple who have lost their home but not their devotion and love for each other.  To say “titular” is to inject the qualification of an applied special distinction or identification.  Historical union cannot be broken into two separate parts.  And, because of this singular identity and the fact that a Hellene cannot be labeled a “titular Hellene”; neither can the Royal and Imperial Byzantine House be considered a titular house.  To deny one is to deny the other.  The fact that no occupied throne exists does not negate the bond.  The House in its practice acknowledges this and prefers when possible to honor the principle of displaying in gold [or] the Bicephalous [double-headed] Eagle of the Great Seal only when the throne is occupied.  None of the above, however, renders the living reality of the House as titular.

        Therefore, usage of the term, titular, is foreclosed in all instances concerning the House, the Institutions of the House, and all Titles, Grants, and Distinctions emanating from the House and the Institutions thereof, unless so designated by the House.

Expansion of Western Civilization: from Constantine the Great to Constantinople and Byzantium and onward to America

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