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[Fr. vicaire =a vicar, a deputy, from Lat. vicarium, acc us. of vicarius =a substitute, a deputy, from vic is a turn, change, succe ion; Spanish & Ital. vicario; Port. vigairo.] [VICE-, pref.] *1. Ord. Lang.: A deputy; a person deputed or authorized to perform the duties or functions of another. "They might appoint a deputy or vicar to do it for them."-Spelman: On Tythes, ch. xxix. 2. Eng . Canon Law : The priest of a parish, the predial tithes of which are impropriated or appropriated; that is, belong to a chapter or religious house, or to a layman who receives them and allows the vicar only the smaller tithes or a salary. [RECTOR.] "These appropriating corporations, or religious houses, were wont to depute one of their own body to perform divine service in those parishes of which the society was thus the parson. This officiating minister was in reality no more than a curate, deputy, or vicegerent of the appropriator, and, therefore, called vicarius or vicar ."- Black stone: Comment, bk. i., ch. 12. Vicar of Christ: A title in the early Church common to all bishops, but now confined to the Pope. vicar-apostolic, s. Roman Church : A name formerly given to a bishop or archbishop, generally of some remote see, to whom the Pope delegated a portion of his authority, or to any ecclesiastic invested with power to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in some place where the ordinary was for some reason incapable of discharging his duties efficiently. Now vicars-apostolic, who are nearly always titular bishops, are appointed where no episcopate has been estab lished, or where the succe ion has been interrupted. ates in existence. There are at present a large number of such vicar i vicar-choral, s. 1. A priest-vicar; a minor-canon (q. v.). 2. A lay-vicar (q. v.). chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; maintain ecclesiastical discipline, report to the bishop on the lives of the clergy, to preside at their local conferences, the care of sick priests, the administration of Church property, and the maintenance of sacred buildings. In Ireland almost their sole function is to grant episcopal dispensations for the non-publication of banns. vicar-general, s. 1. Roman Church : A clerk, usually (but not nece arily) in holy orders, and having a degree in discharge of piscopal functions matters canon law, appointed by a bishop to a ist in the jurisdiction the vicar-general is regarded as the ordinary, and there is no appeal from the former to the latter; but the vicar-general may not do any of those things which belong to the episcopal order. A bishop is not obliged to appoint a vicar-general, but may appoint two or more if nece ary. The office corresponds closely to that of an archdeacon (q. v.) in the early and med iæval church. 2. Anglican Church : An officer employed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and some other bishops to a ist in such matters as ecclesiastical causes and visitations.