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In the broadest sense, a '''vicar''', from the Latin: vicarius, is a representative, deputy, or substitute; a person who acts for someone else or is an agent for a superior. Linguistically, ''vicar'' is the root of the English prefix "vice," similarly meaning "deputy" as used in vice president, vice admiral, and vice chairman. Vicar is used similarly in the Orthodox Christian Church as a term for a representative or deputy of a [[bishop]]. Such a person may be a [[priest]] or another bishop who represents a senior bishop or a [[patriarch]].
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In the broadest sense, a '''vicar''', from the Latin: vicarius, is a representative, deputy, or substitute; a person who acts for someone else or is an agent for a superior. Linguistically, ''vicar'' is the root of the English prefix "vice," similarly meaning "deputy" as used in vice president, vice admiral, and vice chairman. Vicar is used similarly in the Orthodox Christian Church as a term for a representative or deputy of a [[bishop]]. Such a person may be a [[priest]] or another bishop who represents a senior bishop or a [[patriarch]].
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A bishop who is a vicar usually bears in his title the names of both his [[titular bishop|titular]] [[see]], that is usually of a smaller town within the [[diocese]] to which he is attached, as well as the see in which he is a subordinate. For example, Bishop [[Ignatii (Punin) of Vyazemsk|Ignaty (Punin)]], the vicar bishop under the Diocese of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, is titled "The Rt. Rev. Ignaty, bishop of Vyazemsk, vicar of the Diocese of Smolensk," wherein Vyazemsk is a smaller town inside the territory of the Diocese of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. Normally, only large dioceses have vicar bishops, sometimes more than one.