In the Anglican Communion in the United States, if a church is not financially self-supporting and is unable to pay a full-time pastor, the bishop is nominally the pastor The bishop appoints a priest to do the actual work Since this priest is only functioning as a stand-in for the bishop, he or she is called a vicar from the Latin word for stand-in When the church becomes self-supporting, it forms a vestry, which calls and elects a rector to take the place of the vicar
A vicar is a priest who is in charge of a chapel that is associated with a parish church in the Episcopal Church in the United States. a priest in the Church of England who is in charge of a church in a particular area (vicarius , from vicarius (adjective); VICARIOUS)
a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
A priest or religious appointed by the bishop for administering a specific territory within the diocese, a group of persons or a specific rite, or a type of apostolic work within the diocese Episcopal Vicars serve as assistants to the bishop; Parochial Vicars serve as assistants to pastors in parishes There are five Episcopal Vicars in the Diocese of San Jose: the Vicar General, the Judicial Vicar, and Vicars for Clergy, Parish, and Religious
a priest employed as a substitute for a parish rector of for a member of a religious house, monastic, cathedral or collegiate, which had appropriated the revenue for the position
A person acting in place of another with all of the orginal individual's authority In Romanism, it is the concept that a Pope has Christ's full authority In Anglicanism, it's used as the title for a parish priest
an older English term referring to a priest in charge of a vicarage--a small parish; usually such priests were substituting for the "official" or assigned priest; sometimes but not often used by American Episcopal clergy
character who appears in a traditional English folk song bearing same title (who lived in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth) who in the the first two reigns was Protestant then turned Papist in Mary's reign
A parish priest who assists the parish administrator. This is a priest who is assigned by the competent authority to assist the pastor in the pastoral ministry of a parish. Together as co-workers, the pastor and parochial vicar(s) carry out the functions of teaching, sanctifying and leading the people entrusted to their care. The parochial vicar is subject to the authority of the pastor