Vicar (disambiguation)
Vicar typically refers to a clergy position in various Christian traditions or to an administrative political post (Vicarius) in Roman history.
Vicar or vicars or variant, may also refer to:
Church positions
- Vicar (Anglicanism) for its use in the Anglican tradition
- Apostolic vicariate, or "Vicar apostolic", is a Roman Catholic form of jurisdiction directly under the Pope established in a missionary region or before the creation of a diocese.
- Vicar general, or Episcopal vicar, is a diocesean bishop's deputy able to exercise a bishop's ordinary executive power.
- Vicar forane for a parish pastor who serves as a senior authority over a section of a diocese.
- Vicar of Christ, (also "vicar of Saint Peter" or vicarius principis apostolorum), a title used primarily by the Roman Catholic pontiff.
People
- Vicar (comics) for the pseudonym of Chilean cartoonist Victor Arriagada Rios (1934–2012)
- Arthur Vicars KCVO (1862-1921) British antiquarian
- Hedley Vicars (1826-1855) British Army officer
- John Vicars (1682-1652) English author
- Thomas Vicars (1589-1638) English theologian
Places
- Vícar, a municipality in Almería, Spain
- Vicars, West Virginia, a community in the United States
- Vicar Street in Dublin, Ireland known for its concert, events, and performing arts scene
- Vicars Island, an Antarctic island
Creative works
- The Vicar of Bray, an 18th-century satirical song
- The Vicar of Bray, an 1882 comic opera by Edward Solomon with a libretto by Sydney Grundy
- The Vicar of Bray, a 1937 British historical film directed by Henry Edwards
- The Vicar of Bullhampton, an 1870 novel by Anthony Trollope
- The Vicar of Christ, a 1979 novel by Walter F. Murphy
- The Vicar of Dibley, a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis that aired from 1994 to 2007
- The Vicar of Wakefield a novel written 1761-62 by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith
- The Vicar of Vejlby, a 1922 Danish crime mystery film directed by August Blom.
- The Vicar, a character on the television show Thomas & Friends
- The Vicar, a persona, alias and semi-fictional character created by music producer David Singleton (featuring as the centre of a multimedia music-and-fiction project)
See also
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