Office Christianity
vicar apostolic
Bishop administering an apostolic vicariate
- Also called apostolic vicar
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Succession in office
Everyone recorded as holding it
Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.
- 11 holders
- 18 overlapping pairs
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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29 July 1658 CE – 15 April 1680 CE François Pallu French bishop -
11 April 1658 CE – 1 October 1674 CE François de Laval Catholic saint, First Bishop of Quebec Has references -
15 April 1680 CE – 29 October 1684 CE François Pallu French bishop -
29 July 1853 CE – 9 January 1857 CE Frederic Baraga Catholic missionary and bishop (1797-1868) -
12 June 1947 CE – 14 September 1955 CE Marcel Lefebvre French traditionalist Catholic archbishop Has references -
from 8 September 1957 CE Francis Spellman American Roman Catholic cardinal (1889–1967) Has references
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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