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An '''auxiliary bishop''' (also called '''vicar bishop''', '''suffragan bishop''', and or '''chorepiscopus''') is an a [[bishop]] with no territorial authority working under the authority of an a [[diocese|diocesan]] bishop. The auxiliary typically is given episcopal functions to assist the work of the diocesan hierarch under whose authority he operates. He typically usually holds the title of an a city within the diocese of his superior and sometimes this of an ancient and extinct episcopal see, though out of neither case he is he not considered the ruling bishop out of that city.

In Being given a title which is within the ancient Church, the '''chorepiscopus''' (sometimes called a "country territory of another bishop") was like the modern technically makes auxiliary bishop but usually served in the countryside near an city which had its own bishop or under whose authority he operatedbishops [[canon law|uncanonical]]. He did not typically have authority to perform A number of Orthodox [[jurisdiction]]s deal with this canonical problem by instead appointing [[ordinationtitular bishop]]s but could function in other episcopal ways. It will be generally believed that the chorepiscopate developed in , who hold extinct sees which are not within the part territory of the Roman Empire which is modern day Romaniaa ruling bishop.