A vicar general (previously, archdeacon) is the principal deputy of the bishop or archbishop of a diocese or an archdiocese for the exercise of administrative...

A vicar (/ˈvɪkər/; Latin: vicarius) is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious"...

is divided into two vicariates, each with its respective vicar general. Two vicars general exercise the episcopal ministry and pastoral government for...

Cardinal Vicar (Italian: Cardinale Vicario) is a title commonly given to the vicar general of the Diocese of Rome for the portion of the diocese within...

the vicar general. As one of the jobs of the judicial vicar is to preside over collegiate tribunals, many dioceses have adjutant judicial vicars who can...

question. Vicar General Vicar General until 7 March 1801, Superior General for Russia thereafter. Superior General for Russia only. Superior General for Russia...

limit for vicars general proposed for appointment as honorary prelates. The reasoning was that as long as a priest holds the office of vicar general, he is...

The Vicar General of the Diocese of Sodor and Man is an ecclesiastical law officer appointed by the Bishop of Sodor and Man. Formerly there were two vicars...

The Court of the Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury is responsible for granting marriage licences in the Province of Canterbury of the Church...

the Vicar-General of the Province of York is responsible for granting Marriage Licences in the Province of York of the Church of England. The Vicar-General...

Hong Kong. He was the Vicar Capitular of that diocese from 23 July 1974 to 25 July 1975. After that, he remained as the vicar general until 1992.[citation...

1798, Polotsk) was a Polish-Lithuanian Jesuit priest, and Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus from 1785 until 1798, at a time when under papal...

patriarchal, or archiepiscopal) exarchate. An apostolic vicariate is led by a vicar apostolic, who is usually a titular bishop. While such a territory can be...

comprising the vicariate-general, an adjoined secretariat, a registry office and a chancery. In Catholicism, the vicar-general was originally called the...

Church of England from the unique posts of Vicegerent in Spirituals and Vicar-general (the two titles refer to the same position).: 658, fn. 2  During his...

Makil (27 March 1851 – 26 January 1914) was the second Vicar Apostolic and the first indigenous Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Kottayam (Changanacherry)...

recommends that the diocesan bishop appoint an auxiliary bishop as vicar general of the diocese. In May 2017, Gregorio Rosa Chávez was one of the first...

episcopal vicar, Rodolfo Gallardo, as the first vicar general, Roy Rosales as the first chancellor, Pedro Enrique Rabonza IV as judicial vicar, Amando Litana...

within the order, serving as both vicar general and minister general. Saint Francis himself appointed Elias vicar general in 1221. Elias's family background...

missionary labours in 1436 but was forced to abandon them when he became vicar-general of the Observant branch of the Franciscans in Italy in 1438. Bernardino...

also appointed as vicar general. The coadjutor bishop is, however, given authority beyond that ordinarily given to the vicar general, making him co-head...

his faculties to his vicars-general; since 1897 they were always granted to the bishop as ordinary, therefore to the vicar-general also. With regard to...

in Conversano Italy. She was granted the ability to appoint her own vicar-general, select and approve the confessors, along with the practice of receiving...

have no recognized status by the Catholic Church, as confirmed by the Vicar General Mariano Fazio. The Clergy of the Opus Dei Prelature are priests who...

Charles Borromeo's reforms in his own diocese. Unlike vicars general and vicars episcopal, vicars forane are not prelates, which means they do not possess...

junior class of papal prelate, on 15 December. In 1954, he was named the vicar general for the Belluno diocese. Luciani was nominated for the position of bishop...

been Major Penitentiary since April 2024. He was Cardinal Vicar (officially Vicar General of His Holiness) and Archpriest of the Archbasilica of St....

but actual power was wielded by the Duke's local representative, the vicar-general, as well as by the marshal (mariscalus exercitus ducatuum) as the elected...

major seminary of Namur. In September 2021, Terlinden was appointed vicar general for the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. He is a member of the Charles...

Batangueño to be named such. Bishop Rosales received his crosier from the Vicar General of Lipa Venerable Alfredo María Obviar (later Bishop of Lucena) and...