Definition of "locum tenens" [‖Lo•cum te•nens]

• A person, especially a physician or cleric, who substitutes temporarily for another. (noun)

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• "Indeed he built almost an entire new quarter in that town; it was therefore, to say the least, hard and mortifying when, after twenty-five years of administration the "Concilium locum tenens regium" asked him if there was any priest in his diocese in possession of two benefices or offices, as in that case it was the emperor's pleasure (Joseph II) that one of them should be given up."