vicegerent
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The vicegerent of the vicariate of Rome splashed the stone with holy water.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were the years when Coolidge said of war debts, "They hired the money," when Charles Dawes was Coolidge's vicegerent in Europe, wearing laurels won with the Dawes Plan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sultan himself, the great head of the nation and the religion, the vicegerent of God upon earth, has taken off the turban, and all the officers of government have followed his example.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
The head of the church was an acknowledged vicegerent of Him who was styled in scripture Lord of all the kingdoms of the earth.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
He would never have joined Plutarch and Dion in exalting the emperor to the rank of vicegerent of God.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
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