pro-vicarn.
/prəʊˈvɪkə/, U.S. /proʊˈvɪkər/ A person who stands in or deputizes for a vicar; (Roman Catholic Church) a person who acts as the deputy of a vicar apostolic.
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1710 Mem. Rome 262 To the most reverend Lords and Brethren..to the Reverend Provicars, and Apostolic Missionaries in these Kingdoms of China.
1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 581/2 Theodore de Cock, substituted Pro-vicar in his place, was banished by the States, and died at Rome.
1847 A. P. de Lisle Let. 22 Sept. in E. S. Purcell Life & Lett. A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. xiv. 328 I do hope his title of Pro-Vicar is a sign of its provisional character, and that we shall soon have an Archbishop of London.
1861 J. M. Neale Notes on Dalmatia 169 Pro-Vicar of the Bishop in the southern part of his diocese.
1881 Catholic World Oct. 108 The eastern division was confided to the Abbate Comboni, of Verona, pro-Vicar apostolic of Cairo and Alexandria.
1961 R. Gray Hist. Southern Sudan ii. 24 Ryllo, a Polish Jesuit whose interest in the area had been aroused by his experience of the slave trade in the Levant, was appointed pro-vicar.
2003 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 18 Jan. b-7 The Comboni order was founded by Daniel Comboni, who..rose from pro-vicar in 1846 to bishop of Central Africa in 1877.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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