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A vicar ( Latin : " vicarius ") is a representative , deputy or substitute ; anyone acting " in the person ___MASK100___ " or agent for a superior ( compare " vicarious " in the sense ___MASK100___ " at second hand "). Linguistically , " vicar " is cognate with the English prefix " vice ", similarly meaning " deputy ". The title appears in a number ___MASK100___ Christian ecclesiastical contexts , but also as an administrative title , or title modifier , in the ___MASK21___ . In addition , in the Holy ___MASK21___ a local representative ___MASK100___ the emperor , perhaps an archduke , might be styled " vicar ". The early modern period ___MASK100___ modern history follows the late Middle Ages ___MASK100___ the post - classical era . Although the chronological limits ___MASK100___ the period are open to debate , the timeframe spans the period after the late portion ___MASK100___ the post - classical age ( c . 1500 ), known as the Middle Ages , through the beginning ___MASK100___ the Age ___MASK100___ Revolutions ( c . 1800 ) and is variously demarcated by historians as beginning with the Fall ___MASK100___ ___MASK29___ in 1453 , with the Renaissance period , and with the Age ___MASK100___ Discovery ( especially with the voyages ___MASK100___ ___MASK82___ Columbus beginning in 1492 , but also with Vasco da Gama ' s discovery ___MASK100___ the sea route to the East in 1498 ), and ending around the French Revolution in 1789 . ___MASK91___ ( pronounced or ) is the second - most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French - speaking population , with French as the sole provincial official language . The Treaty ___MASK100___ Utrecht , which established the Peace ___MASK100___ Utrecht , is a series ___MASK100___ individual peace treaties , rather than a single document , signed by the belligerents in the War ___MASK100___ the Spanish Succession , in the Dutch city ___MASK100___ Utrecht in March and April 1713 . The treaties between several European states , including ___MASK57___ , Great Britain , ___MASK77___ , ___MASK33___ , Savoy and the Dutch Republic , helped end the war . The Catholic Church , also known as the ___MASK40___ Catholic Church , is the largest Christian church , with more than 1 . 27 billion members worldwide . As one ___MASK100___ the oldest religious institutions in the world , it has played a prominent role in the history ___MASK100___ Western civilisation . Headed by the Bishop ___MASK100___ Rome , known as the pope , its doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed . The Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments . Canon law is the body ___MASK100___ laws and regulations ___MASK93___ by ecclesiastical authority ( Church leadership ), for the government ___MASK100___ a Christian organization or church and its members . It is the internal ecclesiastical law , or operational policy , governing the Catholic Church ( both the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches ), the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches , and the individual national churches within the Anglican Communion . The way that such church law is legislated , interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among these three bodies ___MASK100___ churches . In all three traditions , a canon was originally a rule adopted by a church council ; these canons formed the foundation ___MASK100___ canon law . The fur trade is a worldwide ___MASK6___ dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur . Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern period , furs of boreal , polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most valued . Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia , northern North America , and the South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands . The word diocese is derived from the Greek term "" meaning " administration ". When now used in an ecclesiastical sense , it refers to a territorial unit ___MASK100___ administration . In the Western Church , the district is under the supervision ___MASK100___ a bishop ( who may have assistant bishops to help him or her ) and is divided into parishes under the care ___MASK100___ priests ; but in the Eastern Church , the word denotes the area under the jurisdiction ___MASK100___ a patriarch and the bishops under his jurisdiction administer parishes . This structure ___MASK100___ church governance is known as episcopal polity . ___MASK37___ Bay ( Inuktitut : " Kangiqsualuk ilua ") ( sometimes called ___MASK37___ ' s Bay , usually historically ) is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of . It drains a very large area , about , that includes parts of Ontario , ___MASK91___ , Saskatchewan , Alberta , most of Manitoba , and southeastern Nunavut , and parts of North Dakota , South Dakota , Minnesota , and Montana . ___MASK37___ Bay ' s southern arm is called James Bay . ___MASK56___ is an extensive geographical region , and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia . ___MASK56___ has historically been a part ___MASK100___ Russia since the 17th century . Joseph - Octave Plessis ( ___MASK22___ 3 , 1763  December 4 , 1825 ) was a ___MASK27___ Roman Catholic clergyman from ___MASK91___ . He was the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ___MASK91___ after the diocese was elevated to the status of an archdiocese . ___MASK77___ , officially the French ___MASK39___ , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK77___ extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas ___MASK77___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK77___ spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential ___MASK39___ with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . In Christianity , an archbishop ( via Latin " archiepiscopus ", from Greek , from -, " chief ", and , " ___MASK80___ ") is a ___MASK80___ ___MASK100___ higher rank or office . In some cases , like the Lutheran Church ___MASK100___ Sweden , it is the denomination leader title . Like popes , patriarchs , metropolitans , cardinal bishops , diocesan bishops , and suffragan bishops , archbishops are in the highest ___MASK100___ the three traditional orders ___MASK100___ bishops , priests , also called presbyters , and deacons . An archbishop may be granted the title , or ordained as chief pastor ___MASK100___ a metropolitan see or another episcopal see to which the title ___MASK100___ archbishop is attached . The ___MASK27___ Prairies is a region in western Canada , which may correspond to several different definitions , natural or political . Notably , the Prairie provinces or simply the Prairies comprise the provinces of Alberta , ___MASK96___ , and ___MASK36___ , as they are partially covered by prairie ( grasslands ). In a more restricted sense , the term may also refer only to the areas of those provinces covered by prairie ; their portions of the physiographic region known as the Interior Plains . Prairie also covers portions of northeastern British Columbia , though that province is typically not included in the region in a political sense . Jacques Cartier ( December 31 , 1491September 1 , 1557 ) was a French explorer ___MASK100___ Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for ___MASK77___ . Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf ___MASK100___ Saint ___MASK42___ and the shores ___MASK100___ the Saint ___MASK42___ River , which he named " The Country ___MASK100___ Canadas ", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ( ___MASK91___ City ) and at Hochelaga ( ___MASK78___ Island ). The Great Lakes ( also called the Laurentian Great Lakes , or the Great Lakes ___MASK100___ North America ) are a series ___MASK100___ interconnected ___MASK23___ lakes located primarily in the upper mid - east region ___MASK100___ North America , on the Canada  United States border , which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River . Consisting ___MASK100___ Lakes Superior , Michigan , Huron ( or Michigan  Huron ), Erie , and Ontario , they form the largest group ___MASK100___ ___MASK23___ lakes on Earth , containing 21 % ___MASK100___ the world ' s surface fresh water by volume . The total surface is , and the total volume ( measured at the low water datum ) is . Due to their sea - like characteristics ( rolling waves , sustained winds , ___MASK98___ currents , great depths , and distant horizons ) the five Great Lakes have also long been referred to as " inland seas ". Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world by area , and Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country . The southern half ___MASK100___ the Great Lakes is bordered by the Great Lakes Megalopolis . Pierre - Antoine Tabeau ( 11 October 1782 -- May 18 , 1835 ) was a ___MASK40___ Catholic priest and vicar general . He was the son ___MASK100___ Jean - Baptiste Tabeau , a trader and militia man who was involved in the fur trade out ___MASK100___ New ___MASK77___ . He was a protégé ___MASK100___ Joseph - Octave Plessis . The Archdiocese ___MASK100___ Québec is a Catholic archdiocese in ___MASK91___ , Canada . Being the first see in the New World north ___MASK100___ Mexico , the Archdiocese ___MASK100___ Québec is also the primatial see for Canada . The Archdiocese ___MASK100___ Québec is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses ___MASK100___ Chicoutimi , Sainte - Anne - de - la - Pocatière and Trois - Rivières . The archdiocese ' s cathedral is Notre - Dame de Québec Cathedral in ___MASK91___ City . New ___MASK77___ was the area colonized by ___MASK77___ in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint ___MASK42___ River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New ___MASK77___ to Spain and Great Britain in 1763 . At its peak in 1712 ( before the Treaty of Utrecht ), the territory of " New ___MASK77___ ", also sometimes known as the " French North American Empire " or " Royal New ___MASK77___ ", extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico , including all the Great Lakes of North America . The ___MASK27___ titles debate has been ongoing since the presentation to the ___MASK27___ House of Commons of the Nickle Resolution in 1917 . This resolution marked the earliest attempt to establish a ___MASK27___ government policy requesting the sovereign not to grant knighthoods , baronetcies , and peerages to Canadians and set the precedent for later policies restricting Canadians from accepting titles from foreign countries . Dissatisfaction with the British honours system led to the gradual creation of a separate system for Canada . An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Syriac Orthodox Church , Church ___MASK100___ the East , Chaldean Catholic Church , Anglican Communion , St Thomas Christians , Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations , above that ___MASK100___ ___MASK87___ clergy and below a bishop . In the High Middle Ages it was the ___MASK87___ senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church . An archdeacon is often responsible for administration within an archdeaconry , which is the principal subdivision ___MASK100___ the diocese . The " Oxford Dictionary ___MASK100___ the Christian Church " has defined an archdeacon as " A cleric having a defined administrative authority delegated to him by the bishop in the whole or part ___MASK100___ the diocese ." The office has often been described metaphorically as that ___MASK100___ " oculus episcopi ", the " bishop ' s eye ". The Gulf ___MASK100___ ___MASK26___ is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent . It is bounded on the northeast , north and northwest by the Gulf Coast ___MASK100___ the United States , on the southwest and south by ___MASK26___ , and on the southeast by ___MASK72___ . The U . S . states ___MASK100___ Alabama , Florida , ___MASK84___ , Mississippi and Texas border the Gulf on the north , which are often referred to as the " Third Coast " in comparison with the U . S . Atlantic and Pacific coasts , or sometimes the " south coast ", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the " north coast ." One ___MASK100___ the gulf ' s seven main areas is the Gulf ___MASK100___ ___MASK26___ basin . ___MASK57___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK57___ , is a sovereign state largely located on the ___MASK68___ Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere . It can also be considered a northern subcontinent ___MASK100___ the Americas . It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean , to the east by the ___MASK10___ , to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , and to the southeast by ___MASK62___ and the Caribbean Sea . A vicar general is the principal deputy ___MASK100___ the bishop ___MASK100___ a diocese for the exercise ___MASK100___ administrative authority and possesses the title ___MASK100___ local ordinary . As vicar ___MASK100___ the bishop , the vicar general exercises the bishop ' s ordinary executive power over the entire diocese and , thus , is the highest official in a diocese or other particular church after the diocesan bishop or his equivalent in canon law . The title normally occurs only in Western Christian churches , such as the Latin Church ___MASK100___ the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion . The title for the equivalent officer in the Eastern churches is protosyncellus and in the Anglican Communion is archdeacon . The Saint ___MASK42___ River ( Tuscarora : " Kahnawákye "; Mohawk : " Kaniatarowanenneh ", meaning " big waterway ") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America . The Saint ___MASK42___ River flows in a roughly north - easterly direction , connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin . It traverses the Canadian provinces of ___MASK91___ and Ontario , and is part of the international boundary between Ontario , Canada , and the U . S . state of New York . This river also provides the basis of the commercial Saint ___MASK42___ Seaway . The Anglican Communion is an international association ___MASK100___ autonomous churches consisting ___MASK100___ the Church ___MASK100___ ___MASK74___ and national and regional Anglican churches (" provinces ") in full communion with it . Full participation in the sacramental life ___MASK100___ each church is available to all communicant Anglicans . A protosyncellus or protosynkellos (  ) is the principal deputy ___MASK100___ the bishop ___MASK100___ an eparchy for the exercise ___MASK100___ administrative authority in an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic church . The equivalent position in the Western Christian churches is vicar general .