In dioceses where the cathedral see is vacant, the Vicars Capitular at the time can choose the day.

He was also the Vicar Capitular administering the archdiocese after the death of Cardinal Delargey.

Of somewhat similar standing is the Diocesan Administrator (formerly called a Vicar Capitular) elected to govern a diocese during a vacancy.

Snedden, who took over the administration of the Archdiocese as Vicar Capitular, preached the panagyric at McKeefry's funeral.

He was Canon of the cathedral chapter of Fossano, vicar general and vicar capitular of the diocese between 1933 and 1943.

S. Lazar, the Vicar Capitular of the Diocese erected this village as a parish and appointed Rev.Fr.

He was elected Vicar Capitular on 2 August 1932, and was appointed Archbishop of Buenos Aires on 20 September of that year.

Baziak died in June 1962 and on 16 July Wojtyła was selected as Vicar Capitular (temporary administrator) of the Archdiocese until an Archbishop could be appointed.

He was the Vicar Capitular of the Archdiocese of Tuam, before being appointed Archbishop of Tuam by papal brief on 4 October 1814.

He was Vicar Capitular of the diocese in the interim between the death of Bishop Hackett and the elevation of Dr. Kinane as bishop.

The next day the Diocesan Council met and elected S.T. Ignatius, the then Vicar General of the Diocese to the Vicar Capitular.

He then taught at the Minor Seminary of Saint-Brieuc, and served as secretary of the episcopal curia, vicar general, and vicar capitular of Saint-Brieuc.

A "very significant" letter the following day from one of the church officials, Vicar Capitular Monsignor Cotter, to then Bishop Clarke said the allegations against McAlinden were "not extremely serious."

As the Holy See had in the meantime refused to confirm the presentation, the Vicar Capitular of Goa appointed him administrator of the diocese in place of Fre.

Following the death of Archbishop Joseph Dixon of Armagh, Kieran was Vicar Capitular of Armagh until elected archbishop by the Propaganda Fide on 30 July 1866.

One of the functions of the cathedral chapter in the Roman Catholic Church was to elect a Vicar Capitular (now named a Diocesan Administrator) to serve during a sede vacante period of the diocese.

It continued therefore to recognize as vicar capitular of the archdiocese Father Ferdinand Piontek (1878-1963), a Polish-speaking German priest who had been elected after the death of Cardinal Adolf Bertram on 6 July 1945.

At a meeting of the parish priests held in the chapel of St. Malachy's College, 6 November 1885, immediately after the funeral of Dorrian, McAlister was elected Vicar Capitular of Down and Connor.

He was ordained and worked in the diocese of Viterbo, where he did pastoral work and for twenty-five years served as a professor of history and Scripture in its seminary, as well as being elected vicar capitular of the diocese.

Upon the death of Bishop Thomas Henshaw, he was appointed as Vicar Capitular and on the 5 August 1939 was appointed as the new Bishop, being consecrated on 21 September 1939 on the eve of the Second World War.

O'Neill sent the following message of condolence to Cardinal Conway, the Vicar Capitular of the archdiocese of Armagh: 'Please accept from the Government of Northern Ireland our sympathy on the great loss which your Church sustained on the death of your Spiritual Leader.