Definition of "vicar" []

• The priest of a parish in the Church of England who receives a stipend or salary but does not receive the tithes of a parish. (noun)
• A cleric in charge of a chapel in the Episcopal Church of the United States. (noun)
• A cleric acting in the place of a rector or bishop in the Anglican Communion generally. (noun)
• Roman Catholic Church A priest who acts for or represents another, often higher-ranking member of the clergy. (noun)

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• "He is drawing up plans for neighbouring parishes to pool their resources, forming pastoral areas to be co-ordinated by a priest with the title vicar forane."
• "He was what they call a vicar general -- next job to the bishop, you know."
• ""Disco vicar" is a similar phrase, and sufficiently widely used I'd be tempted to file it as "jargon" already."