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

In medieval times the emperor, conceived as vicegerent of God and co-regent with the pope in government of the Christian people committed to his charge, might almost be regarded as an ecclesiastical officer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

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 Keightley, Thomas

Subprior, sub′prī-or, n. the vicegerent, deputy, or assistant of a prior.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various