vicarship

Elsewhere also I find it recorded that "the cornerstone of Chivalry is the idea of vicarship: for the chivalrous person is, in his own eyes at least, the child of God, and goes about this world as his Father's representative in an alien country."

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

The ex-caliph, shorn of his royal pomp, stripped of the symbols of his vicarship, and deserted by friend and foe alike, was forced to flee from Constantinople, the proud seat of a dual sovereignty, to the land of the infidels, resigning himself to that same life of exile to which a number of his fellow-sovereigns had been and were still condemned.

The Promised Day Is Come 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

Father's business armed with a shining rectitude, yet the unhallowed may be moved to deprecate the enterprise when they recall, with discomfort, the zealous vicarship of, say, the late Anthony J. Comstock.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

Demetrios deplored the loss of a formidable adversary, and jeered at the fact that the vicarship of heaven had been settled by six hens.

Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918

You have often spoken in the stead of Destiny, with nations to abide your verdict; and in so doing have both graced and hallowed your high vicarship.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

After the suppression of the Acacian Schism, the vicarship of the bishops of Thessalonica does not seem to have been immediately restored, owing to the policy of the Byzantine emperors, Zeno and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

At the beginning of 1909 the see contained 17 cathedral prebends, 296 parishes (of which 28 were vacant), I vicarship, 3 ancient chaplaincies, 17 Exposituren (i.e. filial churches joined to the mother church only by some unimportant link to recall their former relations), 235 positions for assistant clergy

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The term pensio is sometimes used as synonymous with a certain species of benefice, as when a cleric, by the authority of a superior, receives a perpetual vicarship in a church and is sustained by its revenues.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

In these he now expressed his disapproval of Alexander's having conferred the vicarship of the Romagna upon Cesare Borgia, and he exhorted all to range themselves under the banner of the Church, under whose protection he intended to keep them.

The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912

Alexander's having conferred the vicarship of the Romagna upon Cesare

The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912