The seat of the apostolic vicar has been vacant since 1975.
As of 1883, there were already two apostolic vicars.
The other vicars Apostolic did not go so far as this, though they opposed the clauses.
On his release he wandered about in disguise, acting as vicar Apostolic.
St Michael's Cathedral is the seat of the apostolic vicar.
The pope, therefore, continued to appoint apostolic vicars for the Netherlands.
They were sent to the Far East as Apostolic vicars.
Koeckemann succeeded as vicar apostolic on June 11, 1882.
He already seems to have been mentally weak at the time of his appointment as vicar apostolic and died insane in Leuven.
The last five years of his life he spent as bishop and the Apostolic Vicar in Bosnia (1855-1860).