vicars-general
- plural of vicar-general.
Example Sentences
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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 Burke, Edmund
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 Irving, Washington
These included 55 cardinals, 11 patriarchs, 7 primates, 159 archbishops, 755 bishops, 6 abbots, 22 mitred abbots-general, 29 generals and vicars-general of orders; in all, 1,044.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
These changed feelings and this welcome were due to the two vicars-general and to old Grossetete.
From The Village Rector by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Formerly Brazil constituted an ecclesiastical province under the metropolitan jurisdiction of an archbishop residing at Bahia, with 11 suffragan bishops, 12 vicars-general and about 2000 curates.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
