vicariate

Definitions

1. 1

   The office, authority, or district of a vicar.

   • His next was to claim, in virtue of this vicariate, the mediatorial “power in heaven and in earth”
2. 2

   The office, authority, or district held by a person as deputy for a bishop, or similar…

   The office, authority, or district held by a person as deputy for a bishop, or similar ecclesiastical authority.

   • Upon ye late remove of our patriarch's vicar there hath fallen vacant a benefice annexed to ye vicariat.
   • Vigilius gave his Vicariate to this Arch-Bishop in the Provinces.
   • St. Charles established a vicariat, that things might be done with deliberation and counsel, which many other bishops imitated.
3. 3

   The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular…

   The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular political leader.

   • If he should chance to fayle, the vicariate of Upper Germany must neades fall upon the Palatin.
   • He has accepted and taken upon him‥his part of the Vicariate of the Empire during the present Vacancy.
   • The vicariat of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws, devolved to the elector of Saxony.
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   1. 4

      delegated

      delegated; relating to a representative; vicarious.

      • To the Bishops of Arles had the Holy See deputed a vicariate power there.

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