| Female curates are acceptable in many parishes but not as vicars and that has to change. |
| By the early 1590s it was accepted that a full hierarchy was impossible and a more ad hoc system of vicars apostolic adopted. |
| His Scouse accent is resolutely unsoftened by regular contact with vicars and other representatives of the lecturing classes. |
| But then the fictional President Bartlett and the real Baroness Thatcher are made of sterner stuff than happy-clappy trendy vicars. |
| On these grounds the requirement for bishops to have served fifteen years in a parish, and vicars five as a curate, were also clear improvements. |
| This meant in practice that papal letters appointing vicars apostolic were not be acknowledged. |
