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Encyclopedia > The Vicar

Reverend Charles Laxely (aka the Vicar) is a person who lives on the Island of Sodor on the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends TV Series. He is the vicar of Wellsworth near Edward's line, and regularly sees him. One day Edward told the Vicar about Trevor the Traction Engine being scrapped, and he saved him. The Vicar also owns an Orchard, where Trevor works. Sodor and Man is a diocese of the Church of England. ... Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) is a British childrens television series which was first broadcast in 1984. ... Trevor the Traction Engine is a character in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. ...


The Vicar has two sons, and regularly holds Sunday School Outings, Fetes, and Garden Parties; of which all the engines enjoy.


The Vicar was introduced in Season 2, and was last mentioned in Season 7. He hasn't made a direct appearance since Season 3.


In the original Railway Series books by the Rev W Awdry the character of The Vicar appears in the book Edward the Blue Engine and is based on the Rev Awdry's friend and fellow railway enthusiast the Rev. Teddy Boston Map showing the railways on the fictional Island of Sodor (click to enlarge). ... The Reverend W. V. Awdry OBE (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997) was a clergyman, railway enthusiast and childrens author, best known as the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine. ...


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BBC - Comedy - The Vicar of Dibley (525 words)
When their vicar passed away in the middle of a service, the inhabitants of the small Oxfordshire village of Dibley expected his replacement to be another old man with a beard, a Bible and bad breath.
The thoroughly modern, pop music-loving vicar is far from the only eccentric character in the village, however.
The Vicar Of Dibley was the brainchild of Richard Curtis, famous for penning the likes of Blackadder, Four Weddings And A Funeral and Love, Actually.
Vicar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1295 words)
Vicars general and episcopal vicars are ordinaries who serve as the chief assistants of a bishop in his diocese.
A vicar canonical is an auxiliary bishop or a priest that leads an administrative department of a diocese, such as the vicar for the clergy or the vicar for education.
A parochial vicar is a priest assigned to a parish in addition to, and under the supervision of, the pastor.
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