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Vicariate  n.  Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar. "The vicariate of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws devolved on the elector of Saxony."





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... other; the successor of the apostles, the vicar of Christ. This was but a practical exhibition of the Anglican theory of Church Government, as I had already drawn it out myself. This continued all through my course; when at length in 1845 I wrote to Bishop Wiseman, in whose Vicariate I found myself, to announce my conversion, I could find nothing better to say to him, than that I would obey the Pope as I had obeyed my own Bishop in the Anglican Church. My duty to him was my point of honour; his disapprobation was the one thing which I could not bear. I believe ...
— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman


Words linked to "Vicariate" :   vicarship, establishment, institution


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