vicegerent

IPA: vitʃˈɛgɝʌnt

The official administrative deputy of a ruler, head of state, or church official.

Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.

Examples of "vicegerent" in Sentences

And such a crushed earth-worm this miserable, infatuated people call the vicegerent of
The Quran says that God created Adam as his "vicegerent" 2:30, his representative on earth.
The stress here -- "all of them" -- indicates that the issue is not simply the names of the natural realm, over which Adam was appointed vicegerent, but also the names of the Creator.
The word "vicegerent" was changed to "viceregent" in the sentence: But as he is held to be God's VICEREGENT among the people of south-western Europe, so is the Russian emperor among the Christians of the East.
Christian, doth manage his office as Christ’s deputy and vicegerent; if not, then I conclude by his principles, a pagan magistrate is the devil’s deputy and vicegerent, which is contrary to Paul’s doctrine, who will have us to be subject for conscience’ sake, even to heathen magistrates, as the ministers of God for good, Rom. xiii.
Satan's rebellion arises in no small measure from an over-estimation of the importance of existents and a rejection of those aspects of his relationship with God to be affirmed through belief: the unobservable act of his own creation; and the benevolence of the Son's vicegerent rule, which he takes to be an expression of divine authoritarianism.