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Vicars of the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ19901735 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Vicars of the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury can be traced back to Adam in 1271. The title of Vicar is very old and arises from the medieval situation where priests were appointed either by a secular lord, by a bishop or by a religious foundation.

List of Vicars

List of Vicars of the Parish Church of St.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1271—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Vicars, Parish and Church can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Vicars of the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.