• 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...
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  • is divided into two vicariates, each with its respective vicar general. Two vicars general exercise the episcopal ministry and pastoral government for...
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  • A vicar (/ˈvɪkər/; Latin: vicarius) is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious"...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Makil (27 March 1851 – 26 January 1914) was the second Vicar Apostolic and the first indigenous Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Kottayam, which is the...
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    question. Vicar General Vicar General until 7 March 1801, Superior General for Russia thereafter. Superior General for Russia only. Superior General for Russia...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • the Church of England in that period. From 1983 until 2005 she was Vicar-General of Canterbury. Cameron was the daughter of Sir James Clark Cameron and...
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    Peter Jan Beckx (category Superiors General of the Society of Jesus)
    accord he called a General Congregation in order that a 'Vicar General with rights of succession' be chosen to serve under him. General Congregation XXIII...
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    rescue workers. In 1996, Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran named him as Vicar General of the archdiocese. In 2002, Weisenburger was named pastor and then...
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  • 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...
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    episcopal vicar, Rodolfo Gallardo, as the first vicar general, Roy Rosales as the first chancellor, Pedro Enrique Rabonza IV as judicial vicar, Amando Litana...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    On that day, the bishop appointed Fr. Abraham Mutholath, the then Vicar General for Knanaya Community, as the first director of the Knanaya Region....
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  • his faculties to his vicars-general, since 1897 they were always granted to the bishop as ordinary, therefore to the vicar-general as well. With regard...
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    Elias of Cortona (category Ministers General of the Order of Friars Minor)
    within the order, serving as both vicar general and minister general. Saint Francis himself appointed Elias vicar general in 1221. Elias's family background...
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  • Archpriest (redirect from Vicar Forane)
    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...
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    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...
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    non-bishop patriarchal vicars: William Shomali, Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of Latin Patriarchate, and Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem and Palestine...
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  • to the appellate tribunal. The judicial vicar (or officialis) ought to be someone other than the vicar general, unless the smallness of the diocese or...
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  • 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...
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  • served as parochial vicar at St. Anthony's parish in Davenport from 2017 to 2018. He became a Diocesan Consultor and the Vicar general of the diocese in...
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    continue to exercise their diplomatic roles and both the Vicar General of Rome and the Vicar General for the Vatican City State continue to exercise their...
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    Abbey and Fahr Convent since 2013. Federer was formerly the prior and vicar general of Einsiedeln Abbey and the editor-in-chief of Salve, the abbey's official...
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