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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Titulus |
 | | Under Trajan it signified at Rome the limits of the jurisdiction of the priests, which is the germ of the meaning it bears in its ecclesiatico-archeological usage. |
| | The most ancient inscription relating to a titulus goes back to A.D. The Liber Pontificalis attributes the foundation of the tituli to different popes of the first half of the fourth century, and this information, which seems genuine, is in part confirmed by inscriptions and by the names given to the churches. |
| | The last titulus recorder in the Liber is that of Vestina under Innocent I. |
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