vicar-general
noun
a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
Jump To:
-
vicar-general
-
vicar general
vicar generalnounan official, usually a layman, appointed to assist the bishop of a diocese in discharging his administrative or judicial duties
vicar-general
American
[vik-er-jen-er-uhl]
/ ˈvɪk ərˈdʒɛn ər əl /
noun
-
vicars-general
plural
-
Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
-
Church of England. an ecclesiastical officer, usually a layperson, who assists a bishop or an archbishop in the discharge of his judicial or administrative duties.
vicar general
British
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Etymology
Origin of vicar-general
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Monsignor Stephen Doktorczyk, vicar-general for the Diocese of Orange, said McElroy’s leadership skills have been impressive.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
The project has personal significance for the Rev. Alex Karloutsos, longtime vicar-general for the archdiocese.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
Rossi was for years the vicar-general to DiNardo, the Catholic archbishop of Galveston-Houston and president of the U.S. bishops conference who has been leading the U.S. hierarchy’s response to the sexual abuse scandal.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
Its leadership had always been white, but nine years later he became their vicar-general, or second-in-command, the first black to hold such an office in any religious order.
From Time Magazine Archive
He induced Nicholas, however, to appoint him as apostolic vicar-general in Savoy, Piedmont and other parts of his own dominions, and to make him a cardinal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The Rev. James Anguiano, moderator of the Curia and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, delivered a homily in Spanish and English.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
Eugine H. Pereira, vicar general of the archdiocese leading the protesters, said they would not be removing the shelter despite the court order.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2022
Added Monsignor Stephen Doktorczyk, vicar general for the Diocese of Orange, California: “There’s a saying that God works through the sacraments, but he is not limited to the sacraments.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Salvatore Genchi, the vicar general of Catania, as he held a copy of the ban in his office behind the city’s basilica.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
The Italians, Tuscans, Ligurians, Istrians, French, Illyrians and Africans, who took a stand against the emperor, were like the pope, the "vicar general of God," converted by the sword of Justinian.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Aaron Walker
One evening Gaston de Nueil was seated between a dowager and one of the vicars-general of the diocese, in a gray-paneled drawing-room, floored with large white tiles.
From The Deserted Woman by Ellen Marriage
I spent a few days in a provincial town, where, in the absence of the bishop, I passed my evenings with three clergymen, his vicars-general, persons who would have done honor to any church.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
In the midst presided the Archbishop of Paris, Christopher de Beaumont; surrounded by his four arch priests and his vicars-general.
From The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving
On the 8th December there were at Rome: 49 cardinals, 9 patriarchs, 4 primates, 123 archbishops, 481 bishops, 6 abbots, 22 abbots-general, 29 vicars and vicars-general of orders; in all, 723 Fathers.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
These changed feelings and this welcome were due to the two vicars-general and to old Grossetete.
From The Village Rector by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
