What do you call visiting vicars?

FannyBrice | 12:29 Thu 30th Sep 2004 | People & Places

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There are few bums on seats now, so many vicars tend to divide their services between parishes. There is a special name for these visiting vicars which I heard the other day, but have since forgotten. Has anyone any idea what the term is? It's really bugging me! Thanks x

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inferno

Just parson through.

New Forester

A lot are now called "team vicars", where several clergy serve a group of churches, but they don't each have particular ones. Is that what you meant? A more direct description might be "peripatetic", which I think just means roaming.

natalie_1982

lmao @ inferno

jimmer

flying vicars. or is that just johnathon edwards.

FannyBrice

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Thanks all! It wasn't peripatetic, no, that term can pertain to any wanderer, apart from a vicar attending to several churches at once. It was something else...and the term referred to one vicar attending to the needs of several parishes, rather than a TEAM of vicars...(you can just see them in their football strip can't you??)

Ewood27

In the Middle Ages there were "hedge priests" who had no set parish but travelled.

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