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lay vicar
noun
- a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.
Example Sentences
Walsh had been a teacher, a lay vicar at Chichester Cathedral and also ran a choir at a church in Chichester, West Sussex.
A woman who was sexually abused by a lay vicar has said she is "extremely angry" that her abuser was allowed to visit and work in churches around the country.
Alesha Racine, now 59, was targeted at the age of 11 by Church of England lay vicar and choir teacher Michael Walsh.
His plan—at any rate, for the temporary settlement of the question—was a confederation of Italian States with constitutional institutions, and a guaranty of complete independence from the direct interference and influence of Austria; and the secularization of the legations with a lay vicar under the suzerainty of the Pope.
Does a priest's surplice differ from that worn by a lay vicar, or vicar choral?
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