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Honoré-Gaspard de Coriolis

A Jesuit, he served as Vicar general of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende.

Ultrajectine

After Codde, another bishop who played an important part was Dominique-Marie Varlet, who had been appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Babylon by the Pope after having been Vicar general to the Diocese of Quebec (Canada), but who instead chose to spend his time in the Netherlands succouring the Jansenists and making appeals to Rome in order that it should reconsider its disciplinary actions against him.


Apimeleki Qiliho

He then decided to become a priest and eventually was made a Bishop after serving for some time as the Vicar general at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva.

Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

This congregation was founded at Saint-Claude, in the Department of Jura, by Adrien Gréa, then a secular priest and the young Vicar General of the Diocese of St.-Claude, a position he had accepted in 1863 at the bishop's urging, despite his feeling called to life in a religious community.

Carrickmore

The Dean Brian Maguirc College, a second level education school, is named after Dean Brian McGurk who was Vicar-General to St Oliver Plunkett during the Penal Times and died in Armagh Gaol aged 91.

Cæsar Clement

Though originally destined for the English mission, Clement never went to England, but held the major positions of Dean of St. Gudule's, Brussels, and Vicar general of the King of Spain's army in Flanders.

Edward Weisenburger

Prior to being appointed bishop, he was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City from 1996 to 2012 and rector of the cathedral from 2002 to 2012.

Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière

He was ordained into the Priesthood (Catholic Church) in 1726, and only four days after this event the Bishop of Quebec appointed him Canon (priest) and Archdeacon, which was followed a few months later to his appointment as Vicar general to the Bishop.

Franz Karl Joseph Fürst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Franz Joseph Xaver Karl Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (27 November 1745, Waldenburg - 9 October 1819, Augsburg) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop and bishop of Augsburg (the first after it ceased to be the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg), as well as vicar general of Neuwürttemberg.

George Stack

In 1990, he was appointed Vicar General for Clergy, a post based at Archbishop's House in Victoria, London.

Jorge Urosa

Before becoming vicar general of the Archdiocese of Caracas, he was President of the Organization of Latin American Seminaries and founded a parochial vicariate in a chabolas neighborhood of Caracas.

Kevin Farrell

He was ordained on February 11, 2002 by Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, and served until 2007 as Washington's moderator of the curia and chief vicar-general.

Marc R. Alexander

Bishop Clarence Silva appointed Father Alexander to the office of vicar general for the Diocese of Honolulu effective February 1, 2006.

Mariano Crociata

From 2003 he was vicar general of the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo.

Mario Delpini

In 2006 archbishop Dionigi Tettamanzi named him in charge for one zone of the archdiocese and in 2012 the newly appointed archbishop Angelo Scola named him vicar general of the archdiocese.In 2007 pope Benedict XVI named him titular bishop of Stephaniacum.

Paul Gregory Bootkoski

He was vicar general of the diocese and later diocesan administrator when Theodore Edgar McCarrick became Archbishop of Washington.

Richard Moth

In 2001, upon the elevation of the Vicar General, Mgr Canon John Hine, to be an Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, Mgr Moth was named Vicar General and Chancellor of the Archdiocese.

Robert Brom

Flores served as Bishop Brom's chief Vicar General with the automatic right of succession as diocesan Bishop when Bishop Brom retired, died, or became incapacitated (Bishops must normally offer their letter of resignation to the Pope for possible acceptance when they turn 75, though the Pope can defer this, typically for up to a year or two, even with a successor already named).

Roger Deslaur

Frederick sent Berenguer Estanyol d'Empúries to act as Manfred's vicar general and Deslaur stepped down from his post as leader of the Company and duke of Athens, retiring to his castle at Salona, which he either escheated, or he was forced to relinquish, to Alfonso Fadrique around 1320.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan

Cardinal Scola is assisted by a Vicar General, the Auxiliary Bishop Mario Delpini, and two other Auxiliary Bishops, Erminio De Scalzi and Luigi Stucchi.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg

On 23 October 2013, Tebartz van-Elst was suspended by Pope Francis as bishop of Limburg, and Wolfgang Rösch was named a new vicar general to administer the diocese in his absence.

Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo

The members placed themselves under the patronage of St. Charles Borromeo, called the "Apostle of Charity", and adopted the constitutions drawn up by Dom Epiphane Louys, Abbot of Estivals and Vicar General of the reformed Premonstratensians.

Surrogacy laws by country

A vicar general of the territory's Roman Catholic diocese was critical.

Vernon Fougère

Following further education at the Jesuit Theological Union at the University of California, Fougère returned to Nova Scotia where he served in a number of parishes before being appointed Vicar General and Director of Pastoral Services for the Diocese of Antigonish in 1988.

William J. Justice

While he was Episcopal Vicar for Clergy, Justice also served as Vicar General of the Archdiocese.Bishop - elect Justice is a trustee of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park .


see also

Anfossi

Filippo Anfossi (died 1825), Vicar-General of the Dominican Order

Assumptionists

Emmanuel d'Alzon (1810-1880), vicar general of the diocese of Nîmes, on Christmas evening 1845 in Nîmes.

Begijnhof Chapel, Amsterdam

On 17 October 1419, after the enlargement of the Beguinage, Matthias, titular Bishop of Biduane (a small town on the Adriatic), in his capacity as vicar-general of Frederic III, Bishop of Utrecht, solemnly consecrated a new chapel.

Bernhard Heinrich Overberg

As curate in Everswinkel he did such good work in teaching religion that the vicar-general, Freiherr von Fürstenberg, offered him the position of director of the normal school, which he was about to found in Münster.

Daniel Donne

He was also a member of the commission formed in 1601 with the object of framing measures for the suppression of piracy by English sailors; and as John Whitgift's vicar-general he sat with five bishops on special commissions at the provincial synod and at convocation.

Electoral district of West Perth

The Catholic Vicar General, Father Anselm Bourke, established the Education Defence League with their assistance.

Elliot Griffin Thomas

He served as pastor of St. Ann's Church on St. Croix, pastor of Holy Family Church, Dean of the Diocese and the Vicar General.

Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière

Louis-Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière (December 14, 1688 – February 12, 1749), Seigneur de Lotbinière; Councillor of the Sovereign Council of New France; Keeper of the Seals of New France; Vicar-General, Archdeacon and the first Canadian Dean of Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral, Quebec.

Francesco Antonio Begnudelli-Basso

In 1679, however, he held a canonry in Freising Cathedral, where also he became in 1696 vicar-general of the diocese, and where he died.

Frederick Charles Husenbeth

Shortly after the restoration of the English hierarchy by Pope Pius IX, Husenbeth was nominated provost of the Chapter, of Northampton, and Vicar-General of the diocese.

Henry Essex Edgeworth

Through his father and the Archbishop of Paris he became vicar-general of the diocese of Paris and friend of the royal family and stayed with them during the French Revolution.

Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin

He rose rapidly through the hierarchy of the church, first made Vicar-General of Pontoise; then in 1765 he was created Bishop of Lavaur; and on 4 November 1770 he was appointed Archbishop of Aix in Provence.

John Wijngaards

After a spell as Vicar General of the Mill Hill Missionaries in London (1976–1982), he became Director of Housetop, an international centre of adult faith formation (1982–2009).

Leonard Goffiné

This book was ready in 1687, and in 1688 it received the imprimatur of the Vicar-General of Münster, and in 1690 the approbation of Rev. William Heimbach, Norbertine prior of Meer, and of Rev. John Dirking, Rector of the Jesuit college of Hildesheim.

Liberal Catholicism

The movement of Liberal Catholicism was initiated in France by Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais with the support of Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert and Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, Bishop of Perpignan, while a parallel movement arose in Belgium, led by François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux, Archbishop of Mechelen, and his vicar general Engelbert Sterckx.

Luis Garza

While he was Vicar General Garza lead efforts to investigate charges of breaking his vow of celibacy brought against Legionaries founder Marcial Maciel.

Luis Garza Medina is a priest in the Legion of Christ who previously served as Vicar General of the organization, making him the second highest ranking person in the organization.

Paolo Dezza

The Jesuits nominated its Vicar General, the Rev. Vincent O'Keefe, an American, to run the order until a successor could be found.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg

The cathedral and the vicar-general are seated in the city-quarter Sankt Georg which is located in the borough of Hamburg-Central.

Shoghakat TV

Shoghakat TV company was founded in 1998 in Yerevan, Armenia, on the initiative of Catholicos Karekin II (at that time Archbishop Karekin Nersessian, Vicar General of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church).

Thomas Preston

Thomas Scott Preston (1824–1891) Roman Catholic Vicar General of New York

Thomas Scott Preston

Thomas Scott Preston (born at Hartford, Connecticut, 23 July 1824; died at New York, 4 November 1891) was a Roman Catholic Vicar-General of New York, prothonotary Apostolic, chancellor, author, preacher, and administrator