Vicar
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A vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior. Linguistically, vicar is cognate with the English prefix "vice", similarly meaning "deputy"
St John's Vicarage, Penzance, Cornwall
Perpetual curate
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Perpetual curate was a class of resident parish priest or incumbent curate within the United Church of England and Ireland. The term is found in common use mainly during the first half of the 19th cen
Charles Dodgson, perpetual curate of All Saints' Church, Daresbury in Cheshire; and father of C. L. Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll. All Saints had been created as a perpetual curacy in 1536 out of a chapel-of-ease of nearby Norton Priory.
Cheltenham Minster, St Mary's an ancient parish church appropriated with a vicarage by Cirencester Abbey and, because unbeneficed at the dissolution in 1539, then continuing with a perpetual curacy until reunited with its rectory in 1863
Haworth Parsonage built in 1774 as the parsonage house for the ancient chapelry of Haworth in the parish of Bradford, established as a perpetual curacy in 1820, at the appointment of Patrick Brontë