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Vicar apostolic

noun
1.
A titular Roman Catholic bishop in a non-Catholic area.





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... madness raged in the cocoanut-grove. In the afternoon the vicar apostolic of the Roman Catholic Church, supported by the faithful Deacon Fariuu, himself toiled up the slope to stop the game. The bishop was received in sullen silence by regular communicants. A catechist whom he had found squat before the mat ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien


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