Letter: Vicar at bay
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: You refer (In brief, 2 May) to Jonathan Blake as "the country's first freelance vicar". According to my dictionary the word "vicar" is derived from the Latin vicarius, meaning a substitute (originally for a religious house, and later for the bishop). Since Mr Blake is quite clearly a substitute for nothing except religious orthodoxy and common sense, perhaps you should use the term "renegade ex-vicar" when referring to him in future.
The Rev David Brookes
Vicar of Hollingbourne & Hucking with Leeds
& Broomfield
Maidstone,
Kent
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