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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rector |
 | | The term rector is applied likewise to the heads of universities, seminaries, and colleges; to the local superiors of religious houses of men; to the pope, as rector of the world, in the conferring of the tiara. |
 | | Rector general is the title given to the superior general of certain religious, e.g. |
 | | One who supplies the place usually occupied by a rector is styled pro-rector (in parishes, administrator), while assistants to rectors in institutions are known as vice-rectors (in parishes, as curates, assistant, or associate, rectors, etc.). |
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