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What is a vicar?

What is a vicar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
  2. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
  3. A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
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A young curate has moved to his first parish and is living under the watchful eye of his matriarchal landlady at the instruction of the vicar.
Like the vicar and the Ministry of Defence, she has a prejudiced viewpoint.
A service of thanksgiving for the life of a much-loved vicar took place on Saturday.
Seems yon vicar changed the water authority into a distillery overnight, producing the best-ever vintage to flow out of Chateau Accrington.
The vicar is distraught, but too meek and mild to withstand his determined churchwarden.
Police are treating an attack on a community church and its vicar as racially-motivated, a spokesman said today.

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