Vicegerent

Last updated

Vicegerent is the official administrative deputy of a ruler or head of state: vice (Latin for "in place of") and gerere (Latin for "to carry on, conduct"). [1]

Contents

In Oxford colleges, a vicegerent is often someone appointed by the Master of a college to assume their powers and responsibilities during a period of absence.

Usage

Catholic Church

In the Catholic Church, the Vicegerent is an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rome, who is granted the personal title of archbishop and serves as the chief assistant to the Cardinal Vicar of Rome. [2] [3]

Church of England

Early in 1535, closely following the passing of Parliament's Act of Supremacy formally creating the Church of England, King Henry VIII appointed his chief minister Thomas Cromwell "Vice-Gerent in spirituals", effectively acting as the king's deputy in church matters and taking precedence over the two archbishops; this was a necessary step as Cromwell, as an unordained layman, otherwise had no jurisdiction within the Church. The office was not continued after Cromwell's execution in 1540. [4] Cromwell's earlier appointment, that of Vicar General, had different responsibilities: under this title he directed the royal commissions into monastic affairs. [5]

Russian Empire

The term "vicegerency" (Ukrainian : намісництво, romanized: namisnytstvo; Russian : намесничество, romanized: namestnichestvo) is sometimes used in English-language historiography for an administrative division in the Russian Empire in the late 18th century. [6] The administrators were called vicegerents, the equivalent of a governor-general. [6] The following such divisions were established on the territory of modern Ukraine between 1780 and 1797:

In 1797, the vicegerencies were abolished and replaced by guberniyas, or governorates. [6]

Southeast Asia

Patih or Pepatih is a regent title equivalent to vicegerent which was traditionally used among Austronesian polities of insular Southeast Asia, in particular those of Java and the Malay world. In the first place it denoted the chief minister of a kingdom or (in the case of Java) a traditional regency. Lesser ministers could also be known by the title. In some cases the headmen of local communities could be termed Patih, for example on 16th-century Java and in Banjarmasin in southeastern Kalimantan. [7]

In his capacity of chief minister in a realm, the Patih was the right hand and representative of the ruler. The commands of the ruler were transferred to the regional or local chiefs via the Patih. In the Javanese kingdoms the Patih had his own palace, the Pepatihan, and carried a particular name; in Yogyakarta his name as regent was Danurejo, in Surakarta (Solo) it was Joyonegoro. [8]

Notable vicegerents

Notes

  1. ↑ Random House Dictionary (2009 ed.)
  2. ↑ Pope Paul VI (6 January 1977). "Vicariae potestatis in urbe" (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Rev. Thomas F. Knox (1876), "Studies in Biography - No V. The Last Survivor of the Ancient English Hierarchy, part II", The Month and Catholic Review, XXVI (February ed.), Simpkin, Marshall: 139, retrieved 9 March 2014
  4. ↑ MacCulloch, Diarmaid (27 September 2018). Thomas Cromwell : a life. pp. 268–9, 533. ISBN   9781846144295.
  5. ↑ Burnet, Gilbert (1753). The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. Vol. 1 (1850 ed.). London: William S Orr & Co. p. 135.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Vicegerency". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  7. ↑ A. Cortesão (1944), The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires, Vol. I-II. London: Hakluyt Society; J.J. Ras (1968), Hikajat Bandjar; A Study in Malay Histiography. The Hague: M. Nijhoff.
  8. ↑ G.F.E. Gonggrijp (1934), Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië. Leiden: Leidsche Uitgeversmaatschappij, p. 1154.
  9. ↑ Browning, Charles Henry (1898). The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John. Philadelphia. p. 14.
  10. ↑ Littlewood, Anthony R. (16 March 1988). Maguire, Henry (ed.). Byzantine court culture from 829 to 1204. Harvard University Press. p. 21. ISBN   9780884022428.

Further reading


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Cromwell</span> English statesman and politician (1485–1540)

Thomas Cromwell, briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche</span> Roman Catholic archdiocese in Italy

The Italian Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church seated in Camerino, a city in the Province of Macerata, in the central Italian Marche region, in the Apennines. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Fermo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">San Silvestro in Capite</span> Church in Rome, Italy

The Basilica of Saint Sylvester the First, also known as, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and titular church in Rome dedicated to Pope Sylvester I. It is located on the Piazza San Silvestro, at the corner of Via del Gambero and the Via della Mercede, and stands adjacent to the central Post Office.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio</span> Roman Catholic basilica in Rome, Italy

The Basilica dei Santi Bonifacio e(d) Alessio is a basilica, rectory church served by the Somaschans, and titular church for a cardinal-priest on the Aventine Hill in the third prefecture of central Rome, Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Apostolic Nunciature to Austria</span> Diplomatic Mission of the Holy See

The Apostolic Nuncio to Austria is an ecclesiastical office of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chronological list of Italian classical composers</span>

This is a chronological list of classical music composers from Italy, whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Neapolitan School</span> Italian Music School

In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy, the best known of whom is Alessandro Scarlatti, with whom "modern opera begins". Francesco Provenzale is generally considered the school's founder. Others significant composers of this school are Giambattista Pergolesi, Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello.

It is with the Neapolitan school...that the History of Modern Music commences—insofar as that music speaks the language of the feelings, emotions, and passions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Annibale Mazzuoli</span> Italian painter (1658–1743)

Annibale Mazzuoli was an Italian painter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cardinals created by Pius IX</span>

Pope Pius IX created 123 cardinals in 23 consistories.

Luigi De La Forest was an Italian-French painter, who was active in Modena.

The Diocese of Caorle was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the coastal town of Caorle in the province of Venice, Veneto.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.