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Answer: The position of vicar forane is appointed by the local bishop. His role is to oversee the priests of a particular area. Each diocese is divided into areas called vicariates. In the United States, the position is usually referred to as a dean and the region as a deanery.
VICAR FORANE. An experienced priest appointed by a bishop to exercise limited jurisdiction over a specific part of a diocese. He is charged with the care of the sick clergy, presides at...
Unlike a regional Episcopal vicar, a vicar forane acts as a help for the parish priests and other priests in the vicariate forane, rather than as an intermediate authority between them and the diocesan bishop.
A vicar forane is to be appointed for a certain period of time determined by particular law. §3. The diocesan bishop can freely remove a vicar forane from office for a just cause in accord with his own prudent judgment.
A Vicar Forane, who is also called a dean or an archpriest or some other name, is a priest who is placed over a vicariate forane (Can. 553, 1). Canon 374 requires that a diocese be divided into parishes, and it permits parishes in a certain vicinity to be grouped together in a vicariate forane or a deanery to promote better pastoral care.
The vicar forane makes sure that sacred functions are carried out according to established liturgical directives, and that the Blessed Sacrament is properly reserved in the churches of the vicariate.
Vicars general, forane, and episcopal are titled "Very Reverend". Monsignori are colloquially addressed as "Monsignor" (abbreviated as "Msgr.").
