vicarn.
/ˈvɪkə/, U.S. /ˈvɪkər/ One who takes the place of, or acts instead of, another; a substitute, representative, or proxy. Chiefly Christian Church.
1.
a. Applied to persons, etc., as earthly representatives of God or Christ; also to Christ or the Holy Ghost as representing the Father.The second line of the first quot. is partly corrupt.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > representative of
vicara1300
vicary1303
vicegerent1646
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > according to other attributes
horn of salvation (health)c825
fatherOE
sun of righteousnessOE
priestc1175
leecha1200
vinec1315
apostlec1382
amenc1384
shepherdc1384
the Wisdom of the Father1402
high priest1526
pelican1526
mediatora1530
reconcilerc1531
branch1535
morning star1535
surety1535
vicar1651
arch-shepherd1656
hierarch1855
particularity1930
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Holy Spirit > [noun] > as representative of the Father
spiritc1384
vicar1678
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27106 Noght anes to preist his sinnes [to] scriue, Bot elles to godd bot was wicare In mans scappe he sittes þare.
c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 140 God..hath þee maked vicair & maistresse Of al þe world.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 30 Siþ prelatis ben vikeris of crist.
c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1908) 122 The preostes that he hath specially ordeyned in his stede as his vikeres.
1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. B.iiv These hyerlynges intended..to be taken for goddes vycars vpon earth.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xviii. 102 b If thou [sc. Peter] wylt succede me as my vicar, thou must fight with no other swerde than of Gods woorde.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. i. i. 290 He calls a Magician Gods Minister and his Vicar.
1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 32 Christ sitting at the right hand of his Father, holds but a second degree with him in honour, and rule, and is but his Vicar.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity ii. §2. 21 Knowledge might be..brought to perfection by the holy Spirit, that Vicar of the Lord.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm vii. 161 Though the vicar of Christ [sc. every true Christian minister] be not unconditionally responsible for the happy result of his labours.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. viii. 98 By and by comes along the State, God's vicar.
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 496 I tell you again I am Commander of the Faithful, and vicar upon earth of the Lord of both worlds.
b. spec. Applied to the Pope (†or the Patriarch of Jerusalem); also to St. Peter in a similiar sense (cf. quot. 1548 at sense 1a above).
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]
popeeOE
apostoilec1275
vicary1303
vicar1340
bridge maker1341
Antichristc1370
vicar generalc1386
Holy Fatherc1400
servant of the servants of Godc1405
His Holy Fatherhood?a1425
universal bishopc1475
holiness1502
harlot1535
papa1555
Apostolic seat1560
vicegerent1572
man of Rome1581
pontiff1583
bullman1588
apostolicship1599
Pontifex Maximus1610
infallibleship1613
sanctity1633
popeship1641
decretaliarch1656
blessedness1670
Holy seata1674
infallibilityship1679
pontifexa1680
holyshipc1680
unholiness1682
His Infallibility1834
Pape1927
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3837 Þat falles hym of office to halde, For he es in erthe, Godes vicar calde.
?1370 Robt. Cisyle 50 Hys oon brodur in ȝovthe Godes generalle vykere, Pope of Rome, as ye may here.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xix. 66 ‘How of the Pope?’ ‘For god is oon,’ seid he, ‘and þerfore he hath made a vyker’.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) ccv. 301 The duc godeffroy and the prynce buymont,..whiche had gyuen to hym this honour as for to be the vycayre of Ihesu Criste in that londe,..assygned rentes to the newe Patriark.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCiii Heare deuoute chrystyan what saynt Peter the apostle & hye viccar of Chrystes chirche sayth.
a1571 J. Jewel Viewe Seditious Bul (1582) 67 Woulde the Vicar of Christ giue this counsel?
1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) vii. 132 God and the Pope..are not alwayes of one mind; and if Christ confirm not in heaven the sentence of his Vicar on earth, we [etc.].
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Pope pretends to be Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 82 The victory gained by the Most Christian King, Lewis XII. when he made war upon the Vicar of Christ.
1847 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) III. 311 The divine right of the catholic church, and the character of its head as Vicar of Christ.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire v. 70 Proclaiming that to the Pope, as God's vicar, all mankind are subject, and all rulers responsible.
c. (See quot. 1641.)Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > the Antichrist
Antichrist1340
the Beasta1425
vicar1641
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 15 For Anti-christ wee know is but the Devils Vicar, and therefore please him with your Liturgie, and you please his maister.
2. 1725 Ld. Harley in Dk. Portland's MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) VI. 116 His chief crime is having been once Episcopal, and playing the Vicar of Bray upon them, and keeping his living, when the rest of his Episcopal brethren were ejected.1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Bray A vicar of Bray, one who frequently changes his principles, always siding with the strongest party.1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxx. 256 The regularly educated thieves..are Vicars of Bray to every man whom it is their interest to humour,—blaspheming with the blasphemer and praying with the saint.in extended use.1895 Daily News 12 June 5/4 A habit which the Iguana shares with many lizards..is the habit of changing its colour; most lizards are Vicars of Bray to this extent.† d. temporal vicar (see quot. 1726). Obsolete.
a. In early use, a person acting as priest in a parish in place of the real parson or rector, or as the representative of a religious community to which the tithes had been appropriated; hence, in later use in the Church of England, the incumbent of a parish of which the tithes were impropriated or appropriated, in contrast to a rector n. Now also a priest who is a member (team vicar) of a team ministry (team n. Compounds 4) under the leadership of a team rector.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > vicar > [noun]
vicary1303
vicarc1325
substitute1555
ficker1589
flicker1598
altarist1753
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > vicar > [noun] > team
team vicar1970
vicar1972
α.
β. ?1388 in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 493 Þat no persone ne vicare ne prelate is excusud fro personele residense..in þer beneficys.1402 J. Upland 279 Sith persounes and vicares alone,..with bishops above hem, were y-nough to..do prestes office.1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 15 She..openly seide unto ye seide Vicar, that she wold never..have hym to hur Husbond.1482 Rolls of Parl. VI. 210 Upon the same apropriation, ther shuld be a vicour endowed sufficiently.1521 Lincoln Wills (1914) I. 90 Sir Thomas Markby vykar off the sayd church.1531 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 24 The vicare to have iiijd. and the clerke ijd.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxix v The parson and vicar wyll haue for a mortuary, or a coarse present, the best thynge that is about the house.1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. vi. 51 Ile to the Vicar, Bring you the maide, you shall not lacke a Priest.1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B2v Like some Pedanticall Vicar, stammering out a most false and crackt latine oration.a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 273 Our Viccar [preached] on Pro:.1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 68 He was preferr'd..to the Bishoprick of Coventry and Litchfield..before he had been..Vicar, or Curate of any Parish-Church in England.1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. xi. 301 A vicar has generally an appropriator over him.1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 482 Not a simple village Vicar ought to be without the actual necessaries of life.1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 68 Where the vicar produces an endowment, then the situation of the parties is reversed.1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 99 The present vicar..speedily brought about a different aspect.1972 Daily Tel. 7 Aug. 10/5 Only the leader of the team, usually called ‘Rector’, is the beneficed freeholder incumbent inducted by the bishop. His colleagues (‘vicars’) are licensed by the bishop as members of the team.1977 K. M. MacMorran & K. J. T. Elphinstone Handbk. Churchwardens (new ed.) vii. 66 In the context of a team ministry..the incumbent of the benefice or benefices to which a team ministry extends is always styled ‘rector’... The other members of the ministry are styled ‘vicars’.1984 Church Times 27 Jan. 17/1 (advt.) Vicar required... N. Birmingham Team Ministry, modern vicarage.γ. 1520 Chron. Eng. vii. f. 90/1 There was decreed yt all persones & vycayres sholde be called prestes.c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. C.iii Pope, bysshoppes, and cardyuals Chanons, persons, and vycayre In goddes seruyce.c1325 Metr. Hom. 87 Erles, knihtes, and baronnes, Prestes, vikers, and parsonnes.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 76 Þei..don neiþer office of prelatis,..nei er þe office of parsones ne vekeris to here parischenes.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 424 Þe fend haþ founden cautels to bringe in vikeris in persouns stede.
1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 290/2 All maner of Persones, and Vykeyrs, and Hospitilers.
c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 224 A greet famed kunnyng mayster of divinite is curat, and parsoun and viker.
1533 in Archaeologia 25 523 To the vykers woman of Dokkynge.
1533 in Archaeologia 25 523 The vykere of Snettysham servante.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 49 A gret generalle processione of alle parsons, vekeres, curattes, with alle other prestes.
1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. G4 How shall wee doe for the parsons and vickers?
b. figurative or transferred.
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1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Perils Idolatry iii. sig. Yy iij b We nede not to complayne of the lacke of one dombe person, hauyng so manye dombe deuyllyshe vycars (I meane these ydolles and paynted puppettes) to teache in theyr steade.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 42 I doubt not..to get a hundreth of these stratagemes, especially if I trauell neere where any of the vickers of hell are.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iv. ii. 1722 And you Maister Amoretto, that art the chiefe Carpenter of Sonets, a priuileged Vicar for the lawlesse marriage of Inke and Paper.
1660 J. Tatham Rump v. i Sure the viccar of fools was his ghostly father.
c. Vicar of Bray, one who readily changes his principles to suit the times or circumstances.Bray is the village of that name near Maidenhead in Berkshire. According to Fuller (see ref. below) the ‘vivacious vicar’ held the benefice from the reign of Henry VIII to that of Elizabeth, and was twice a Catholic and twice a Protestant. In the later song, to which the currency of the phrase is mainly due, the sovereigns under whom the vicar successively changes his religion and politics are those from Charles II to George I.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer
Jack of both sides1554
mongrela1555
timeling1554
temporizer1555
time-taker1576
politique1581
time-server1583
time-pleaser1590
time observer1594
temporist1596
please-time1606
timist1614
timorist?1623
trimmer1682
Vicar of Bray1725
timer1842
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Berks. 82 But first we will dispatch that sole Proverb of this County, viz. The Vicar of Bray, will be Vicar of Bray still.
c1720 Song, Vicar of Bray (Chorus) This is the law, I will maintain, Until my dying day, Sir, That whatsoever King may reign, Still I'll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir.
1735 Brome in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. 100 I have had a long chase after the Vicar of Bray, on whom the proverb... I am informed it is Simon Aleyn or Allen, who was Vicar of Bray about 1540, and died 1588.]
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > vicar > [noun] > temporal
temporal vicar1726
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 509 Temporal vicars..are much the same with our Curates as we now call them; and these are constituted for some particular Acts and Seasons.
3.
a. = vicar choral n.
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society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [noun] > assistant
vicara1387
vicary?a1475
vicar choral1530
lay vicar1837
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 465 For clerkes fliȝ þe travayle of þe queere,..and dede vikers in here stede þat hadde ful litel for to lyve by.
1531 Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 33 To the wiccaris of the qweyr; with the borrow maell.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 116 This Queen..ordained a Dean,..forty Schollars, Vicars, Singing-men, and twelve Alms-men.
1700 J. Brome Trav. iii. 248 A Collegiate Church, consisting of a Dean, four Prebendaries, five Singing-Men, three Vicars, and four Deacons.
1878 Grove's Dict. Music I. 52 His choir was well appointed, and every vicar, clerical as well as lay, gave his daily and efficient aid in it.
b. lay vicar, = 3a (Also priest-vicar: see priest vicar n. at priest n. Compounds 6.)
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society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [noun] > assistant
vicara1387
vicary?a1475
vicar choral1530
lay vicar1837
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 110 The Choir is also the term by which the lay-vicars, or lay-clerks, and choristers, i.e. the singers, of a cathedral, are collectively designated.
1843 J. Jebb Choral Service United Church of Eng. xii. 108 The Lay Vicars of the old Cathedrals..are sometimes members of the inferior Colleges, sometimes merely part of the foundation at large.
1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 184 Lay vicar, a term used in the statutes of some of our cathedrals to designate the superior grade of singing men.
4. One who takes the place of, or acts as the representative of, another (esp. the Pope or other high dignitary) in the performance of ecclesiastical or religious functions; spec. in the Roman Catholic Church, a bishop's deputy. Cf. grand vicar n. at grand adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] > representative of
vicarc1380
vicarya1387
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 18 Ȝif þe Pope and his vikeris wolden studie wel þis mater.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 1393 And sempte that he sholde be Lyk a vyker douteles Off Aaron & of Moyses.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 130 This Prelate [sc. the Bishop of Ely], hauing nowe by the Kings commission the power of a Viceroy, and besides, [by] the Popes gifte, the authoritie of a Legate and Vicar.
1586 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 129 Directed to the Archbishopp of Cant: or to his vicar or Commissary generale.
1611 D. Carleton Let. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 546 Upon ye late remove of our patriarch's vicar there hath fallen vacant a benefice annexed to ye vicariat.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy l. 372 When S. Paul sent for Timothy from Ephesus, he sent Tychicus to be his Vicar.
a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 386 The Popes..began to practise a fine trick,..which was to confer on certain Bishops..the title of their Vicar or Lieutenant; thereby pretending to impart Authority to them.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. x. i. 238 They [the patriarchs] appointed vicars, or deputies, to act for them in the remoter provinces.
1820 J. Milner Suppl. Mem. Eng. Catholics 108 The late B. Berington's Vicar, Dr. Bew.
1898 W. Bright Some Aspects Primitive Church Life ii. §6. 83 This ‘high and Divine power’, which Cyprian claimed as inherent in the episcopate, was larger than that which St. Paul had entrusted to his own ‘vicars’.
5. in extended use.1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 57 The rooks..ben vicaires and legats of the kynge.?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Civv All the synewes of the body brede and come out of the brayne by it selfe, or of the noddle that is his vycare.
a. In general use: One acting, or appointed to act, in place of another, esp. in administrative functions; a vicegerent.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun]
ministerc1300
substitute1391
vicarc1400
vicary?14..
deputyc1425
vicegerent1549
vicarian1598
mandatary1607
mandatar1681
mandatee1774
mandatory1862
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 109 Folwe þanne vche comandour tene vicaires, & vche vicaire tene lederes.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) viii. viii. 6 In his empyre he set two vicars, Gaue them power in euery region [etc.].
c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 250 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 353 [The prefect] deput in his sted þare, þe law to hald þaim, a vicare, & sorouful went away.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 169/2 Gordyan that was vicayr unto Julyan themperour.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. vii. 170 I wil mak him (for he is weil institute in chevelrie) vicare and lieutenent for me.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 278 He commandes that women, barnes, and citisenis all to him cum and craue mercie as to the Kingis vicare.
1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 38 To assemble his friends, and witnesses of his wil, and those whome he meant to make his heyres, his vicars, and substituts.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 207 Lord Cromwell..sate in state above all the Bishops, as the King's Vicar, or Vicegerent-Generall in all spirituall matters.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3814/3 It is said, the King of Spain has made the Duke of Burgundy Vicar of the Spanish Low-Countries, which Title gives him a Power over those Provinces, equal to that which the King would have if he were there in Person.
1753 Scots Mag. 15 27/1 During a vacancy of the Imperial throne, the government of the empire devolves upon the two vicars.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xvii. 37 The eleven remaining dioceses [=provinces]..were governed by twelve vicars, or vice-præfects, whose name sufficiently explains the nature and dependence of their office.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. iii. iii. 74 He was chosen afterwards vicar (or vice-gerent) of Louis in Aversa.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 169 We may be very sure that Heminge and Condell did not, as vicars, take upon themselves a disagreeable task.
b. A thing substituted for another. rare.
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute
changec1460
supplier1491
quid pro quo?1535
supply1567
vicegerent1583
substitute1589
vice1597
succedane1601
surrogate1644
succedaneum1651
succedaneum1662
vicar1676
superseder?1774
supersessor1810
locum tenens1814
supplial1837
remplaçant1850
fill-in1918
Stepney1928
stand-in1933
substituter1956
1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 64 All dungings and other sordid temperings, being but the vicars succedaneous to this improvement.
1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo xiii. 218 Abraham caught the Ram, which was to serve as the vicar of Isaac.
Compounds
C1. With defining term preceding.
papal vicar n.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > vicar
Pope's vicar1670
papal vicar1845
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. App. e. 373 The bishop of Arles, the papal vicar in Gaul, in place of the pope whose representative he was.
1902 H. K. Mann Hist. Popes I. i. 22 He came to Thessalonica;..its metropolitan..was a papal vicar.
Pope's vicar n.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > vicar
Pope's vicar1670
papal vicar1845
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 84 And first I shall begin with the Popes Vicar, which office is the most antient of all, and was for a long time executed by Bishops, and other Prelats.
1902 H. K. Mann Hist. Popes I. i. 159 Augustine..was consecrated bishop by Virgilius of Arles, the Pope's vicar in Gaul.
C2. With defining term appended.See also vicar general n.
vicar apostolic n.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [noun] > representing papal authority
vicar apostolic1766
V.A.1787
vicar apostolical1849
1766 in E. H. Burton Life Bp. Challoner (1909) II. xxvii. 83 After all, by the terms of the circular letter, the Vicars Apostolic have, in case of necessity, a power to dispense.
1799 C. Butler Acct. Life & Writings A. Butler vii The vicar-apostolic of the middle district claimed him as belonging to that district, and appointed him to a mission in Staffordshire.
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 373/1 Where the succession of the Catholic hierarchy has been interrupted, as in England,..the bishops who superintend the Catholic church and represent the papal authority, are known by the name of vicars apostolic.
1851 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 116 921 The changing of vicars-apostolic to bishops in ordinary.
vicar apostolical n.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [noun] > representing papal authority
vicar apostolic1766
V.A.1787
vicar apostolical1849
1731 in O. Blundell Catholic Highlands Scotland (1917) II. 99 His Holiness..appoints him also Vicar Apostolical with singular powers.
1847 J. A. Manning Pius XI I. 168 Differences broke out between the Vicar Apostolical and the Chilian government.
1849 C. Stovel Canne's Necessitie of Separation Introd. p. xxxv Wolsey, to carry on the policy of his church, obtained his own appointment as vicar-apostolical of England.
vicar capitular n.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > bishop's officials > [noun] > vicar capitular
vicar capitular1837
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. viii. 435 On the death of a bishop, the clergy of the diocese elect a vicar capitular, who exercises spiritual jurisdiction during the vacancy.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 10/2 A special meeting..for the purpose of electing a Vicar-Capitular to administer the See of Southwark during the vacancy.
vicar episcopal n.
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1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 439 Vicar Episcopal, an office corresponding in some particulars to the English archdeacon, as well as to the Greek ‘Chorepiscopus’.
vicar foran n. (also vicar forane, vicar foreign)
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > bishop's officials > [noun] > vicar forane
vicar foran1825
V.F.a1912
1825 J. W. Doyle in W. J. Fitzpatrick Life, Times, & Corr. Dr. Doyle (1861) I. xi. 282 Whenever a priest falls into any dangerous illness, the Vicar-Foreign within whose deanery he lives shall visit him.
1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. (at cited word) Vicar-forane, Roman Church, a dignitary or parish priest appointed by a bishop to exercise a limited jurisdiction in a particular town or district of his diocese.
1896 Tablet 18 Apr. 619 The curé and vicar-foran at Castries..receives £200 a year.
vicar provincial n.
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1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 134 Vicar-provincial of Andalusia, he plies his task anew.
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