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vicar general

an official, usually a layman, appointed to assist the bishop of a diocese in discharging his administrative or judicial duties
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"There was a vicar-general named Joseph Raja but he could not chair the committee because he was a witness," the bishop said."Their findings were proper as per the constitution and were rightfully implemented.
And really this is the only part of the story which comes alive as Susannah (Sian Ellis) and her maid Hester (Joanne Gill) are interrogated by the bishop's truly fearsome vicar-general, played with comic, sinister brilliance by James King.
In a letter obtained by the Irish Mirror, John Arnold, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Westminster, said shamed cleric Brother Ambrose would not find sanctuary in Britain.
Oden Marichal Rodriguez, vicar-general of the diocese, and a member of the Cuban parliament, said that the idea of returning to ECUSA is transitional, "while we work establishing the Province of the Caribbean." The hoped-for province has been under discussion for about 20 years, and Cuban clergy want a retirement fund in place now.
The new Bishop of Argyll and the Isles will be Monsignor Ian Murray, 67, currently vicar-general of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh based at the parish of St Francis Xavier in Falkirk.
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