Governor of a territory of the Papal States.
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Examples for "pontifical vice-legate "
Examples for "pontifical vice-legate "
1 My name is Dolci, I am son of the captain of the vice-legate's guard.
2 Avignon is governed by a vice - legate from the pope, and the police of the city is regulated by the consuls.
3 He was successively inquisitor at Malta, vice - legate at Ferrara and nuncio in Cologne (1639-1651).
4 I was told that the vice - legate offered three hundred crowns, and I felt a real pleasure in contradicting my favoured rival's desires.
5 He left this with the rank of prolate, in 1828 was secretary to the nuncio at Paris and was made vice - legate of Bologna shortly afterwards.
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