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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A subordinate or deputy legate.
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Examples
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Avignon is governed by a vice-legate from the pope, and the police of the city is regulated by the consuls.
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Pius VIII recalled him and named him vice-legate, granting him choice of any of the four legations over which cardinals presided.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Their duty was to watch over the material and financial interests of the city; their resolutions, however, were to be submitted to the vice-legate for approval before being put in force.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The vice-legate, generally a bishop, represented the civil power (in this case the pope) and was chiefly a judicial officer, ranking higher than the Primicerius (Rector).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The Public Council, composed of 48 councillors chosen by the people, four members of the clergy, and four doctors of the university, met under the presidency of the viquier, or chief magistrate, nominated, for a year, by the legate or vice-legate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Re entered the Roman Curia at the age of twenty and was successively made vice-legate at Urbino, inquisitor in Malta, and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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From June, 1531, to September, 1534, he ruled Bologna as papal vice-legate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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States to the Congregation of Avignon (1692), which resided at Rome, with the Cardinal Secretary of State as prefect, and exercised its jurisdiction through the vice-legate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Later he became vice-legate of Perugia, and under Clement VII was twice appointed prefect of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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This congregation, to which appeals were made from the decisions of the vice-legate, was united to the Congregation of Loretto; in 1774 the vice-legate was made president, thus depriving it of almost all authority.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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