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	Vicar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An episcopal vicar is a priest or auxiliary bishop who possesses executive power of governance in a certain part or among a certain group of the faithful in a diocese.
		A vicar forane, also known as an archpriest or dean, is a priest entrusted with a certain degree of leadership in a territorial division of a diocese.
		A parochial vicar is a priest assigned to a parish in addition to, and in collaboration, with the pastor of the parish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vicar (1402 words)

	Vicar - LoveToKnow 1911
		The title of " vicar of Jesus Christ," borne by the popes, was introduced as their special designation during the 8th century, in place of the older style of " vicar of St Peter " (or vicarius principis apostolorum).
		It was not till the 13th century that the alternative style " vicar of St Peter " was definitively forbidden, this prohibition thus coinciding with the extreme claims of the pope to rule the world as the immediate " vicar of God " (see INNOCENT III.).
		A special vicar was appointed by the pope to superintend the spiritual affairs of Rome and its suburbs, to visit its churches, monasteries, andc., and to correct abuses.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Vicar (1060 words)

	Vicar Did You Mean vicar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A vicar general is a bishop's chief assistant in a diocese.
		Episcopal vicars and vicars forane lead territorial divisions of a diocese, episcopal vicars are normally titular bishops, while vicars forane are always priests.
		A parochial vicar is a priest assigned to a parish in addition to, and under the supervision of, the pastor.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Vicar.html (1069 words)

	Rock of Cashel
		The Hall of the Vicars Choral was built in the fifteenth century.
		The vicars choral[?] were laymen (sometimes minor canons[?]) appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral services.
		This was later reduced to five honorary vicars choral who appointed singing-men as their deputies, a practice which continued until 1836.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Rock_of_Cashel.html (321 words)

	Choir - LoveToKnow Watches
		Any organized body of singers performing full part choral works or oratorios is also called a choir.
		The word " choir," indeed, formerly applied to all the clergy taking part in services of the church, and the restriction of the term to the singing men and boys, who were in their origin no more than the representatives (vicars) of the clergy, is a comparatively late development.
		At Wells, for instance, the vicars-choral form a corporation practically independent of the dean and chapter; they have their own lodgings inside the cathedral precincts (Vicars' Close) and they can only be dismissed by a vote of their own body.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Choir (739 words)

	The cathedral of Salisbury: Eighteenth to twentieth centuries \| British History Online
		The vicars choral readily agreed to the reduction of their numbers to four, but, on discovering that the reduction had not been registered as permanent in the chapter act book, refused to make the additional payments to the lay vicars and simply divided up the fifth stipend amongst themselves.
		The vicars choral were the only class for whom the Commissioners recommended increased stipends, so that they need no longer hold other benefices at a distance from the cathedral.
		636) Of the vicars choral, one was vice-principal of the Theological College; another religious instructor of the choristers; the third, cathedral librarian and parish priest of the close, and the fourth curate of Stratford-Sub-Castle.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=40266 (8558 words)

	The cathedral of Salisbury: From the Reformation to the Restoration \| British History Online
		The history of the vicars choral in the 40 years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War faithfully reflects the history of their masters, the residentiary canons.
		In return the chapter agreed that the lay vicars should remain at seven until an eighth layman could be paid a sufficient stipend out of the increases; that all fines for renewal of leases should still belong to the vicars choral only; and that the lay vicars' stipends should not exceed £20 a year.
		He had admitted a lay vicar and dismissed the vicar of the close (that is, the vicar choral with cure of souls in the close) on his own authority, and had ordered his acts as dean alone, without the chapter, to be registered in the chapter act book.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=40265 (10883 words)

	WELLS CATHEDRAL - MUSIC
		The Vicars Choral were substitutes for the canons.
		There are generally nine Vicars Choral, all trained singers, who are paid a stipend by the Chapter and are provided with housing in Vicars Close which was built in the fourteenth century by Bishop Ralph to house the men of the choir.
		Choral Scholarships are offered by the Chapter generally to younger student singers for one or two years, often immediately before or after they attend university.
	www.wellscathedral.org.uk /music/vicarschoral.shtml (243 words)

	Richard III Society--Compton Reeves, Cathedral Close
		The habit grew of sending vicars to substitute in choir for absent monks, and those monks who had no obligation which drew them away from choir came to be known as 'cloisterers', which only underscores the potential for the distractions of worldly business to lure monks from their sworn spiritual life.
		The very existence of vicars choral in cathedrals served by secular canons meant that canons perpetually made a habit of absenting themselves from their stalls in the cathedral churches to which they were ostensibly bound to give spiritual service.
		Another womanizing vicar choral, who reminds us that Benesleve was not unique, was John Everarde, who served Salisbury Cathedral and who was charged on the same day in 1411 for fornication with Joan Kulys and Margaret Frowe, although he purged himself of the second charge.
	www.r3.org /wood/papers/reeves.html (2885 words)

	Lichfield Cathedral Choir Personnel: Lay Vicars Choral
		By the early fourteenth century the Vicars Choral had been granted the right to hold their own common seal (pictured left) and had begun to live in collegiate style.
		Bishop Walter de Langton gave the Vicars Choral a plot of land in the north-west corer of the Close upon which was built a double quadrangle of half timbered houses, together with a common dining hall so that the Cathedral musicians might be housed within the Close.
		The Lay Vicars Choral are semi-professional singers who embrace a variety of professions in addition to their daily singing at the Cathedral.
	www.cathedralchoir.org.uk /persflvc.htm (429 words)

	Bedern Hall - the history of the hall
		It was originally part of the College of the Vicars Choral which occupied the area between Goodramgate, St Andrewgate and Aldwark.
		The Vicars Choral, who used the hall, sang services in York Minster in place of the Canons who were occupied elsewhere in their prebends.
		There were 36 Vicars Choral by 1300AD, one for each member of the chapter (the governing body of York Minster).
	www.bedernhall.co.uk /bedern_hall_history.htm (716 words)

	TheGlasgowStory: Vicars' Choir Stone
		Inscribed stone from the "place" (the house, or manse) of the Vicars Choral, which was situated north of the Cathedral to the east of Vicars' Alley.
		The Vicars Choral were the vicars responsible for providing music at services in the Cathedral.
		The vicars choral were trained in singing, to keep up the tone and quality of the services.
	www.theglasgowstory.com /image.php?inum=TGSA05013 (196 words)

	Charters Vicars Choral York II, 0902122924, £40.00/$75.00, 192pp, 2002
		The latter documents are especially detailed, and include grants of advowson, archiepiscopal confirmations consequent on inquiries (with witnesses testifying on the vicars' poverty in 1332 following the disruption caused by Scottish invasions and in 1351 after the Black Death), descriptions of the manner in which the churches were physically handed over, and ordinations of vicarages.
		Drawing also on the vicars' financial accounts, the introduction to the volume sets the acquisition of both city and Yorkshire property in the context of the vicars' fluctuating economic fortune, which reflected on general changes in urban prosperity and more specifically impinged on the vicars' ability to maintain a common life.
		The charters relate to the Vicars' property in Yorkshire, and to their holdings of appropriated churches (including the church of Nether Wallop in Hampshire).
	www.boydell.co.uk /02122924.HTM (315 words)

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		The history of the choir is as old as the building itself and records of the Vicars Choral go back to 1136.
		In recent years the choir has included choral scholars who are either gap year students or postgraduates who serve for one or two years.
		The Choir makes an average of two recordings each year, and the Vicars Choral have also produced several recordings on their own of both sacred and secular repertoire.
	www.boychoirs.org /karlsson (1056 words)

	Choir - Salisbury Cathedral
		In the early days the music in the cathedral was performed by two groups of musicians, the Vicars Choral and the choristers, either together or separately.
		In the sixteenth century there first appeared the Lay Vicar, a singing man who was not in Holy Orders and whose duty it was to assist the Vicar Choral with the singing.
		The Salisbury Cathedral Choral Foundation is a Trust set up by the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral to support the nine hundred year old tradition of music in worship that continues at the Cathedral today; and to secure its future into the next millennium.
	www.salisburycathedral.org.uk /music.choir.php (611 words)

	Truro Cathedral Music - Lay Vicars
		The lay vicars are the adult members of the choir who sing the alto, tenor and bass parts.
		They are supplemented by the Choral Scholars (see below), making a total of four singers per part.
		There are a number of deputy lay vicars who are called on from time to time in the absence of regular members of thechoir.
	www.trurocathedral.org.uk /music/lay-vicars.htm (84 words)

	Burrington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The second event is a visit by the Vicars Choral of Wells Cathedral with an entertainment in words and music entitled "The Trials and Tribulations of the Vicars Choral".
		Vicars Choral, the men of the choir, have existed since at least the 1100s to sing the daily round of services in Wells Cathedral.
		With the simplification of services at the reformation the number of Vicars Choral was reduced to 12.
	www.wringtonsomerset.org.uk /journal/burrington.html (255 words)

	The rebirth of Bedern
		The book, Bedern Hall And The Vicars Choral Of York Minster, is a fascinating account of the history of the Bedern area and what life was like for the vicars who used the hall as their refectory.
		From about 1250 the College of Vicars Choral was "an institution vital to the daily life and worship of York Minster," Dr Hall writes.
		It was crucial that vicars choral could sight read music and they began to learn pieces as boy choristers.
	archive.thisisyork.co.uk /2004/05/10/247295.html (1046 words)

	Wenchoster Cathedral choir
		Until the beginnings of the 19th century the music in the cathedral was performed by three groups of musicians, the Vicars Choral, the choristers, and the local "Beer and Thunder" band, drawn from regulars of the Nine Bells in Privy Street.
		The Wenchoster Cathedral Choral Foundation (WCCF) is a Trust set up by the Dean and Chapter of Wenchoster Cathedral to support the eight hundred year old tradition of music in worship that continues at the Cathedral today; and to secure its future.
		The chief aim of the Choral Foundation is to raise money to ensure that both boys and castrati enjoy first class musical, academic, social, inter-personal and religious education free of financial constraint.
	www.dioceseofwenchoster.co.uk /choir.htm (884 words)

	Ossory Diocese, Kilkenny, Laois (Queen's) & Offaly (King's) counties, Ireland Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
		Bishop St. Leger gave to the vicars choral his manse and lodgings, formerly the episcopal palace, previously to the erection of the palaces of Aghor and Dorogh ; and William Fitz-John, who succeeded in 1302, appropriated the church of Claragh to the abbey of St. John the Evangelist, with a reservation of 20s.
		The vicars choral, three in number, are a corporate body, endowed with various lands and tithes in the city and county of Kilkenny ; the former comprising nearly 269 acres, and, together with the tithes, producing a rental of £200.
		At the end of the south transept, on the eastern side, is the consistory court, built by Bishop Pococke, and to the north of it is the chapter-house.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/kilk/dioossory.htm (1019 words)

	Holy cross choir history
		By the middle of the thirteenth century, the Vicars Choral had been reduced to twelve in number – one for each canon of the Church, but the music they sang was still no more adventurous than plainsong.
		From 1365 the vicars and the clerks were housed in a sort of hostel called Kalenderhey, which was built to the north of the Church (on the western side of the present car park) and which was only fully demolished in the middle of the nineteenth century.
		In 1414 Vicar John Lyghtfote came to blows with the treasurer (a senior canon), and in 1426 he had another fight in a Churchyard in Honiton where he had become a chaplain.
	www.holycrosschoir.com /history.htm (1097 words)

	Amazon.fr : Charters of the Vicars Choral of York Minster: County of Yorkshire and Appropriated Churches to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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	Parish of Aderrig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After the dissolution of the Cathedral the possessions of the Vicars Choral at Aderrig were leased by the Crown to Chief Justice Luttrell, and subsequently were granted to Sir Nicholas White, of St. Catherine's, under whom they were held by John Dongan.
		About the middle of that century the lands of Backweston, which had belonged to the Priory of St. Wolstan, were in the possession of Sir John Allen, sometime Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who, as has been stated in connection with St. Catherine's, succeeded to the property of that Priory.
		In 1389 the Crown presented William Middleton to the living, and in 1395 Archbishop Welby granted the entire revenues to the Vicars Choral of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
	www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/ball1-6/Ball4/ball4.4.htm (1045 words)

	Wells \| Choristers
		Today, the Cathedral Choir, considered to be one of the finest in the world, consists of eighteen boys and eighteen girl choristers (two separate choirs) and twelve men known as Vicars Choral.
		The choristers receive scholarships to sing in the Choir, gaining a first-class training in singing and choral music but also benefit from all the usual curricular and extra curricular activities.
		The Cathedral Choir, considered to be one of the finest in the world, consists of eighteen boys and eighteen girl choristers (two separate choirs) and twelve men known as Vicars Choral.
	www.wells-cathedral-school.com /music/chorister.html (199 words)

	List 7: Succentors \| British History Online
		There was also a succentor of the vicars (Chs.
		Vicars Choral no. 143), 1 Oct. 1255 (Reg.
		as succentor of vicars 21 Sept. 1292 (Misc.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=3592 (353 words)

	Chapter VII - Cathedrals
		The Dean’s Vicar shall be salaried; the Succentor may be salaried if the Cathedral Board so decides on the occurrence of a vacancy; the remaining vicars choral shall not be salaried.
		A vicar choral who is salaried shall have a seat but not a vote in the Chapter and shall be subject to removal, for cause shown, by the Dean and Chapter with the approval of the Archbishop of Dublin.
		Under this Statute the Archbishop of Armagh is the Ordinary and has the right of appointment to the Deanery, Dignities and Prebends; appointments (other than to the Deanery) shall be for a fixed term; and they are not confined to clergy of the diocese.
	www.ireland.anglican.org /constitution/07ChapterVII.htm (2382 words)

	Almost Angels
		In addition to their choral activities both within and outside the Cathedral, choristers take part fully in the academic, spiritual and social life of the Choir School.
		The Wells Cathedral Choir, consisting of 18 boy choristers and 12 men, or vicars choral, traces its origin to sometime prior to the construction of the present cathedral which was begun in 1180.
		Records of the Vicars Choral go back to 1136 and it is known that there were boy choristers singing at Wells even earlier.
	almostangels.org /cathedral.htm (584 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 380 - 18 May, 1988 - Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - National Monuments.
		The Dormitory Wing of the Vicars' [1756] Choral was formerly in a ruinous condition.
		It is being restored with a view to providing in it improved visitor facilities including an audio-visual show which will assist in the interpretation and appreciation of our national monuments.
		This year's work programme includes erecting the upper levels of the north wall, repairing cut stone windows, repairing masonry, erecting roof timbers, building blockwork for an office and sanitary facilities in the basement and providing access to the vault of the Vicar's Choral Hall.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0380/D.0380.198805180017.html (1176 words)

	Archive Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The vicars choral were perpetual vicars required to be present and perform all the services in the choir.
		There are also biographies of all vicars choral from 1660 to 1823 compiled by Revd William Cooke in the mid-19th century
		The vicar of St John was usually appointed from among the Vicars Choral.
	www.herefordcathedral.org /library_collect_archive.asp (846 words)

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