vicar

Noun

vicar (plural vicars)

1. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
2. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.

5 letters in word "vicar": A C I R V.

Anagrams of vicar:

• vraic

Words found within vicar:

ai air ar arc car civ rai ria riva vac vair var via

• Definitions:
• a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
• In the broadest sense, a vicar (from the Latin vicarius) is anyone acting "in the person of" or for a superior (compare "vicarious"). In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant. ...
• Vícar is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
• Vicar, a pseudonym for Victor Arriagada Rios (born April 16, 1934 in Santiago, Chile), is a cartoonist and creator of Disney comics.
• A vicar is the priest in charge of a parish or mission that is supported financially from the outside, while a rector is the priest in charge of a self-supporting church.
• An ecclesiastic representing the pope or bishop, a deputy. [42]
• Parson of a parish where the tithes had been appropriated or impropriated so that he received only the smaller tithes.
• a priest employed as a substitute for a parish rector of for a member of a religious house, monastic, cathedral or collegiate, which had appropriated the revenue for the position
• VICAR is a general purpose image processing software system that has been developed since 1966 to digitally process multi-dimensional imaging data http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html
• Term for a duly-appointed priest in charge of a mission congregation with all the rights and responsibilities as outlined in Title III, 9.5 and following. The bishop appoints a vicar.
• [English] (1) an administrative deputy (2) a minister of a church who serves under the authority of another minister
• A word from the Lation "substitute" it was a clergymen paid to act in the true parish priest's stead. A vicar was often very corrupt.
• leader of an Anglican Church
• The priest, or sometimes a deacon, placed in charge of a mission church or chapel, he may or may not become the Rector when the mission attains Parish Church status.
• The title of the senior priest in a mission congregation (financially subsidized or without enough membership to provide the resources needed to function independently).
• A person who substitutes for another to fulfill the duties of an ecclesiastical office. Often used to mean the priest who, in return for compensation, tends to the cure of souls in a parish for an absentee rector.
• A priest, serving full-time or part-time, with charge and responsibility for a mission or aided parish, appointed by the Bishop for a period of one year, renewable. ...
• in the Russian Church, a suffragan or auxiliary bishop; a bishop who does not rule a diocese of his own, but governs part of the diocese as a ruling bishop as his deputy.
• A person acting in place of another with all of the orginal individual's authority. In Romanism, it is the concept that a Pope has Christ's full authority. In Anglicanism, it's used as the title for a parish priest.
• From the Latin vicarius ("a substitute"). The vicar is the priest-in-charge of a mission, appointed by the bishop (who is, technically, the Rector of the mission).

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