Vicariate

//vaɪˈkɛəɹi.ət// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  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 religious institution under the authority of a vicar wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    delegated; relating to a representative; vicarious. archaic, rare

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

Synonyms

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archbishopricbishopriccanonicatecuracydeaneryepiscopacy

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

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apostolic vicariatevicariate forane

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