VICAR APOSTOLIC Definition & Meaning

vicar apostolic

noun

plural vicars apostolic.

Roman Catholic Church. a titular bishop serving either in a district where no episcopal see has been established, or in one where the succession of bishops has been interrupted.
Ecclesiastical History. an archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastic to whom the pope delegated a portion of his jurisdiction.

vicar apostolic

noun

RC Church a titular bishop having jurisdiction in non-Catholic or missionary countries where the normal hierarchy has not yet been established

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of vicar apostolic¹

First recorded in 1760–70

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He returned to Rome, and seems to have been instrumental in inducing Pope Gregory XVI. to increase the vicars apostolic in England.

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The views of our vicar apostolic on the subject, as explained in his written instructions, being conformable with our wish, we did not hesitate.

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There are now three bishops, vicars apostolic, at Cape Town, Graham's Town, Natal.

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Why was it more of a usurpation for the pope to make a new Archbishop of Westminster, than to administer London by the old form of vicars apostolic?

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Nobody cares very much, however, except a vicar apostolic, who urgently requests forty or fifty marines or sailors "to protect our persons and our chattels."

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