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Ship of Fools: St Anne's, Edge Hill, Liverpool, England
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Ship of Fools: St Anne's, Edge Hill, Liverpool, England
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It is,however,I would have thought,fairly common to know that the word 'vicar' is very often applied to a priest who has the charge of a CofE parish. The word 'vicar' is indeed used within the RC community but it generally has a different meaning from the one which I think that Urganda is implying.
BTW, another small point spotted by this incurable pedant - the railway referred to by @Urganda is presumably the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, opened in 1830. This wasn't actually the world's first passenger-carrying railway (several others beat them to it!), but it was the first 'inter-city' line, as we might say today, worked entirely by steam locomotives.
@Urganda is quite right, of course, in referring to Liverpool's complex, and very interesting, history!
Ordinarily, in editing, I would fact-check the parish's website to see what titles they use for their clergy. However, the web address supplied by the reporter brings up a "This site has been permanently closed" message and I can find no other website for this particular church.
Don't ask how I recall this...
The parish in question is in fact St Anne and St Bernard, the result of an amalgamation of two former parishes, though the church attended is dedicated to St Anne - the former St Barnard's church has been put to good use http://www.liverpoolcatholic.org.uk/index.php?p=2016
BTW, I'd be interested (am I allowed to say this?) in an MW Report about St Dunstan, Edge Hill - the local C of E church (part of a Team Ministry, with a huge Victorian building imaginatively re-ordered a few years back by Richard Giles).
It would be a piquant contrast to the RC St Anne's, I think, but, alas, there's no way I could get to Liverpool to 'oblige'.
St Dunstan's is AFAIK in vacancy again at the moment, early promise (after the reordering) having apparently not been fulfilled. Yet...