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  • century classics, including his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral ... most remembered work, his only novel, The Vicar of Wakefield. An unusual ...
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  • their diplomatic roles overseas, and the Vicar General of Rome continues ... to the cathedral chapter, who then elects a vicar capitular. In particular ...
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  • In 1602, he was elected vicar-general of the Capuchins. After retiring ... 1602, Lawrence was elected the order's vicar-general, the highest position ...
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  • Avignon and Toulouse. After serving as Vicar-Genral of Clermont, followed ... the troops of Gil de Albornoz, the Papal vicar in Italy at the time. Urban ...
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  • did so through his earthly deputy, or vicar, the Pope. At its best, this ... * Powell, James M. Innocent III: Vicar of Christ or Lord of the World ...
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  • to the Isle of Rhé in 1627. He became vicar of the parish of Dean Prior, Devon in 1629, a post that carried a term of thirty-one years. ...
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  • parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne was a vicar, and the two become friends. When Sir Henry Wotton, a poet and provost of Eton, died, Walton continued ...
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  • of the church of Saint-André in Bordeaux, then vicar-general to his brother, the archbishop of Lyon, who in 1294, was created Cardinal Bishop of Albano ...
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  • a Roman Catholic priest, witnessed the event, Vicar, Father Gasper Coelho passing on his testimony. St. Thomas supposedly clutched the cross in ...
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  • entrance exam, Owen worked as lay assistant to the Vicar of Dunsden and as a pupil-teacher at Wyle Cop School. Prior to the outbreak of World War I, he ...
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  • Convent of Erfurt and held the office of Vicar provincial of Thuringia. ... the general, Aymeric, appointed him his Vicar-general for Bohemia, with ...
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  • a number of important ecclesiastical offices as vicar-general of Luçon (1821), Amiens (1823), and then Paris (1834) he was nominated and appointed archbishop ...
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  • of moral philosophy in Trinity and vicar of St Anne's, Dawson Street at the time of his son's birth. He was consecrated Bishop of Cork ...
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  • eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior, vicar of Durnford, Wiltshire, and Mary Duke, the daughter of the solicitor-general of Barbados. He was ...
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  • In 1729 he was ordained in the Church of England and served as vicar in the parish of All Saints, Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he did a considerable ...
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  • of vicars choral, each canon having his own vicar, who sat in his stall in ... appointment of a diocesan chancellor, or vicar general, which still need ...
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  • on May 12, 1328. Marsilius was appointed Imperial Vicar and began to persecute the clergy who had remained faithful to John XXII. In recompense for ...
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  • by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. The ... into Philip Carey's club foot, the vicar of Whitstable becomes the ...
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  • as Christ's deputy, or substitute (vicar) on earth had already been laid by Adrian I and by the document (later proved a forgery) known ...
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  • of the Bishop of Cahors, who appointed him grand vicar and theological canon. It also led to his being chosen deputy to the general assembly of the ...
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