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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.

  1. 29 July 1658 CE – 15 April 1680 CE François Pallu French bishop
  2. 11 April 1658 CE – 1 October 1674 CE François de Laval Catholic saint, First Bishop of Quebec Has references
  3. 15 April 1680 CE – 29 October 1684 CE François Pallu French bishop
  4. from 12 May 1846 CE Guglielmo Massaia Catholic cardinal (1809-1889) Has references
  5. 29 July 1853 CE – 9 January 1857 CE Frederic Baraga Catholic missionary and bishop (1797-1868)
  6. from 3 March 1868 CE James Gibbons Catholic cardinal (1834–1921) Has references
  7. 12 February 1875 CE – 28 July 1875 CE John Ireland Catholic archbishop (1838–1918) Has references
  8. from 20 November 1883 CE Giovanni Cagliero Catholic cardinal (1838–1926) Has references
  9. 12 June 1947 CE – 14 September 1955 CE Marcel Lefebvre French traditionalist Catholic archbishop Has references
  10. from 29 October 1949 CE Maurice Feltin Catholic cardinal (1883–1975) Has references
  11. from 8 September 1957 CE Francis Spellman American Roman Catholic cardinal (1889–1967) Has references

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

0 statements on this record

This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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