vicars-general

A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his vicars-general.

Les Miserables 2008

M. de Bargeton was no longer there; but the Bishop came, as before, with his vicars-general in his train.

Eve and David 2007

One evening Gaston de Nueil was seated between a dowager and one of the vicars-general of the diocese, in a gray-paneled drawing-room, floored with large white tiles.

The Deserted Woman 2007

M. de Bargeton was no longer there; but the Bishop came, as before, with his vicars-general in his train.

Eve and David 2007

One evening Gaston de Nueil was seated between a dowager and one of the vicars-general of the diocese, in a gray-paneled drawing-room, floored with large white tiles.

The Deserted Woman 2007

Romish archbishops, bishops, deans, vicars-general, abbots, priests, and friars; for which reason, in 1629, the public exercise of the popish rites and ceremonies was forbidden.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

[90] The provincials, the vicars-general, and other officers of the Religious Orders were elected by the

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

His lordship, the bishop, condescended to wish the joy of it, and intrusted me with the design he had formed of honoring the assembly of his vicars-general, by making him our colleague.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Monsieur de Conzie, now bishop of Arras, having been raised to the see of St. Omer's in 1766, caused me to be elected a canon in his cathedral church: he nominated me one of his vicars-general, and I repaired thither on the 5th of October, 1767.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Camus, Vicar General of Meaux; after his death, in 1814, by the two vicars-general Fonck and Klinkenberg.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913