The Vicar General of Rome, traditionally a Cardinal, and his deputy the Vicegerent, who holds the personal title of Archbishop, supervise the governance of the diocese by reference to the Pope himself, but with no more dependence on the Roman Curia, as such, than other Catholic dioceses throughout the world.

But Rouen did not go quietly: Alain Blanchard hung English prisoners from the walls, for which he was summarily executed ; Canon and Vicar General of Rouen Robert de Livet became a hero for excommunicating the English king, resulting in de Livet's imprisonment for five years in England.

After some delay, apparently due to the interference of his former professor, fra Vincenzo Bandelli, now Vicar General of the Order, Lorenzo succeeded in bringing Savonarola back to Florence, where he arrived in May or June of that year.

Matteo and his companions were formed into a separate province, called the Hermit Friars Minor, as a branch of the Conventual Franciscans, but with a Vicar Provincial of their own, subject to the jurisdiction of the Minister General of the Conventuals.

Even more scandalously, the third Vicar General, Bernardino Ochino, left the Catholic faith in 1543 after fleeing to Switzerland, where he was welcomed by John Calvin, became a Calvinist pastor in Zurich and married.

Each province is governed by a Prior Provincial, each commissariat by a Commissary General, each of the two congregations by a Vicar General, and every monastery by a Prior ( only the Czech monastery of Alt-Brunn in Moravia is under an abbot ) and every college by a Rector.

She was the paternal granddaughter of Nathaneal Bland ( d. 1760 ), Vicar General of Ardfert and Agadhoe, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Dublin, Ireland, and his wife Lucy ( née Heaton ).

William Dubourg, Vicar General, offered Mass at the altar on which the statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor had been placed.

The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Sir Thomas Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General.

* Vicar General, the principal deputy of a Christian bishop

The current archpriest is Agostino Vallini, Cardinal Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome.

* Michael J. Lavelle ( Cathedral Rector and Vicar General ; interred 1939 )

Thomas Cromwell, as Vicar General, launched a commission of enquiry into the nature and value of all ecclesiastical property in 1535, which culminated in the Dissolution of the Monasteries ( 1536 – 1540 ).

Gregorio Aglipay y Labayan, Obispo Máximo I – first Supreme Bishop of the Filipino Church, Vicar General of the Revolutionary Government.

The Secretary of State, the prefects of the Congregations of the Roman Curia, the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, the Vicar General of Rome, and the Patriarchs of Venice and Lisbon, are usually Cardinals, with few, generally temporary, exceptions.

* Vicar General of Sodor and Man

* Vicar General of Sodor and Man

In 1919 The Archdeacon, the Vicar General and the Receiver General were removed as ex-officio members of the Council by the Isle of Man Constitution Amendment Act 1919.

The next day, Good Friday, he again called them together and gave them his last instructions and appointed a Vicar General.

In 1940 he was named Vicar General of Valleyfield, and was raised to the rank of Monsignor on September 29, 1942.

Papal legates continue to exercise their diplomatic roles overseas, and the Vicar General of Rome continues to exercise his pastoral role over the diocese of Rome during this period.

On October 20, 1898 he was appointed Military Vicar General of the revolutionaries.

He resigned as Superior General of the Order in 1607, but continued to serve as Vicar General of the Order.

His son Romano ( 1268 – 1327 ), called Romanello, was Royal Vicar of Rome in 1326, and inherited the countship of Soana through his marriage with Anastasia de Montfort, Countess of Nola.

The official list of titles of the Pope, in the order in which they are given in the Annuario Pontificio, is: Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God.

Though the Pope is the diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Rome, he delegates most of the day-to-day work of leading the diocese to the Cardinal Vicar, who assures direct episcopal oversight of the diocese's pastoral needs, not in his own name but in that of the Pope.

Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Lambruschini introduced him to Vatican congregations and to Pope Gregory XVI, who appointed Pecci on 14 February 1837, as personal prelate even before he was ordained priest on 31 December 1837, by the Vicar of Rome.

In June 1596 he was made Cardinal-Priest of Sant ' Eusebio and Cardinal Vicar of Rome by Pope Clement VIII, and had as secretary Niccolò Alamanni.

Following the break with Rome in the 16th century, the subsequent establishment of the independent Church of England, and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII had the Vicar of Newark, Henry Lytherland executed when he refused to acknowledge the king as head of the Church.

Roberto Orsini was a son of Romano Orsini, Royal Vicar of Rome and Anastasia de Montfort.

Though infallibility was not a political concept, some of Pius's critics thought its proclamation was meant to bolster his moral authority as the Vicar of Christ, perhaps discouraging Italian nationalists from attacking the Pope's own Rome.

Strangely, despite the Debitum Pastoralis and the waivers it provided, in 1692 the Dutch ancient Church came under persecution from counter-reformist Jesuits, who, despite opposition to this from Rome, accused Petrus Codde, Apostolic Vicar of Utrecht and the Dutch Republic, of favouring the Jansenist heresy.

Although Conciliarist strains of thought remain within the Church, particularly in the United States, Rome and the teaching of the Roman Church maintains that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth, and has the authority to issue infallible statements.

Together with the Vicar General and a General Council, it is his job to guide the growth and administration of the various ministries of the Marists across the globe, from the General House in Rome.

He obtained several ecclesiastical appointments ( including as Vicar of St. Mary's Church, Horncastle ), but owing to the resistance of Pope Boniface VIII he failed to secure the bishopric of Ely in 1298, although he was supported by King Edward I of England and visited Rome to attain his end.

The 2012 edition of the Annuario Pontificio gives " Vicar of Jesus Christ " as the second official title of the Pope ( the first being " Bishop of Rome ").

The Lateran Palaces also houses the offices of the Vicariate of Rome, as well as the residential apartments of the Cardinal Vicar, the Pope's delegate for the daily administration of the Diocese of Rome.

The Palace today houses the offices of the Vicariate of Rome, as well as the living quarters of the Cardinal Vicar General of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome.

* Luigi Traglia ( 1895-1977 ): cardinal, Vicar General of Rome and Dean of the College of Cardinals.

Although it looked liked a way to safeguard the English Catholic population, Bishop Charles Walmesley ( 1722-1797 ), the Vicar Apostolic of the west of England, thought Cisalpinism would mean a new oath of allegiance that would " exclude the Pope's spiritual jurisdiction " and " diminish our dependence in spirituals on the Church in Rome, and by degrees to shake it off entirely ; likewise to take off the abstinence of Saturday, to reduce Lent to a fortnight before Easter, and to have the Liturgy in English ".

But Pope John Paul II and his Vicar for Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti, actively supported CL's movement into Italian politics.