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Titular
Titular adjective - Being something in name or form only.
Usage example: he's the titular head of the department, though it's the assistant managers who largely run things around here
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So-called is a synonym for titular in in name only topic. You can use "So-called" instead an adjective "Titular", if it concerns topics such as stated, having a title.
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- The titular characters of Tokyo Ghoul are (predictably) all this way to some degree, from Picky People Eater Tsukiyama to the "Binge Eater" Rize to the so-called "vegetarian" Kaneki Ken.
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The end result is a less than perfect union, with the resultant factions being the so-called Free States, the United States and the titular DMZ (formerly known as Manhattan).
Source: Alternate History - Therefore bishops who work exclusively in administrative matters and bishops who really screwed up are assigned to these so-called Titular Sees.
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