proconsul

IPA: proʊkˈɑnsʌɫ

(in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.

Examples of "proconsul" in Sentences

The proconsul was a prudent man, and he called for Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God.
Florinus may have belonged to his suite, and Irenæus in after years might well call the proconsul's retinue, in
The U.S. command has divided the world into several command sectors, each with their own powerful 'proconsul' protecting the rights of the empire [3].
[[994] Procurator] Over the senatorial provinces the senate appointed by lot yearly an officer, who was called "proconsul" and who exercised purely proconsul, civil functions.
Trajan emphasized at once his personal control and the constitutionality of his sway, by bearing on his campaigns the actual title of "proconsul," which no other emperor had done.
He said he supposed the proconsul was the friend of Caligula, who often visited Agrippa; and expressed a surmise that he himself might be exiled, or that perhaps his throat would be cut.
Oakley, the special U.S. envoy to Somalia, became a kind of proconsul, alternately cajoling and threatening the factions in order to stop the fighting, deliver food to the hungry and start rebuilding a nation.