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Vicar typically refers to a clergy position in various Christian traditions or to an administrative political post (Vicarius) in Roman history.
Vicar or vicars or variant, may also refer to:
Church positions
- Vicar (Anglicanism) for its use in the Anglican tradition
- Apostolic vicariate, or "Vicar apostolic", a Roman Catholic form of jurisdiction directly under the Pope established in a missionary region or before the creation of a diocese
- Vicar general, or Episcopal vicar, a diocesan bishop's deputy able to exercise a bishop's ordinary executive power
- Vicar forane, a parish pastor who serves as a senior authority over a section of a diocese
- Vicar of Christ (also "vicar of Saint Peter" or vicarius principis apostolorum), a title used primarily by the Roman Catholic pontiff
People
- Vicar (cartoonist) (1934–2012) for the pseudonym of Chilean cartoonist Victor Arriagada Rios
- Arthur Vicars (1862–1921), British antiquarian
- Hedley Vicars (1826–1855), British Army officer
- John Vicars (1582–1652), English author
- Thomas Vicars (1589–1638), English theologian
- The Vicar (music producer), pseudonym of David Singleton
Places
- Vícar, a municipality in Almería, Spain
- Vicars, West Virginia, a community in the United States
- Vicar Street in Dublin, Ireland known for its concert, events, and performing arts scene
- Vicars Island, an Antarctic island
Creative works
- The Vicar of Bray (song), an 18th-century satirical song
- The Vicar of Bray (opera), an 1882 comic opera by Edward Solomon with a libretto by Sydney Grundy
- The Vicar of Bray (film), a 1937 British historical film directed by Henry Edwards
- The Vicar of Bullhampton, an 1870 novel by Anthony Trollope
- The Vicar of Christ (novel), a 1979 novel by Walter F. Murphy
- The Vicar of Dibley, a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis that aired from 1994 to 2007
- The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel written 1761–62 by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith
- The Vicar of Vejlby, a 1922 Danish crime mystery film directed by August Blom
- The Vicar (Thomas & Friends), a character on the television show Thomas & Friends
- The Vicar (music producer), a persona and multimedia project created by record producer David Singleton
See also
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