District Vicar

District vicar (Latin vicarius , also provincial vicar ) was a name for the leading clergyman for one or more provinces of the Congregation for Observance of the Augustinian order in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Duties and powers

The duties of the district vicar were to visit the individual monasteries . He had decision-making powers and could, for example, set up or remove priors .

District Vicars (selection)

Gottschalk Hollen , 1456, Westphalia
Johannes Brüheim , 1497–1504, Bavaria, Swabia, Rhine, Cologne
Johann Vogt , 1503–1504, 1512, Saxony and Thuringia
Martin Luther , 1515–1518, for Saxony and Thuringia
Johann Lange , 1518, Saxony and Thuringia

Individual evidence

↑ Description of the task in Lyndal Roper: Luther. The man Luther. The biography. S. Fischer, 2016. p. 105
↑ Berndt Hamm: Theology of piety at the beginning of the 16th century. Studies on Johannes von Paltz and his circle , Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-16-144520-1 . P. 72f.

[1] Description of the task in Lyndal Roper: Luther. The man Luther. The biography. S. Fischer, 2016. p. 105

[2] Berndt Hamm: Theology of piety at the beginning of the 16th century. Studies on Johannes von Paltz and his circle , Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-16-144520-1 . P. 72f.