vicar apostolic

1. 1.

   a titular Roman Catholic bishop in a non-Catholic area

   Broaderbishop

Questions about vicar apostolic

What does vicar apostolic mean?

vicar apostolic means "a titular Roman Catholic bishop in a non-Catholic area".

Is vicar apostolic a common word?

vicar apostolic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.