vicar

"madam, the things these fallen women do would make your hair curl""oh vicar, this is terrible.

You want your vicar to be an upstanding member of the community, and they are more successful that way.

Nowadays, if you go to a wedding, it is almost certain that the person in the role of registrar/vicar is female.

Or a PhD student.- A vicar or priest living at the vicarage- A diplomat or embassy staff posted abroad

Just as I might respect an American general or president's title, or a vicar's reverend even though I am an atheist.

They have cake and organise bake sales and cups of tea and they're generally very nice people and don't demand too much, and besides the church is in the middle of the village and it looks lovely so I'll chip in a bit to the roof fund because you wouldn't want it falling down, and we do have a bit of a sing on a sunday morning and it's not too boring, and the vicar was so good at poor uncle Alfie's funeral the other week...I listened to an interview with our last Archbishop of Canterbury a little while ago, Dr Rowan Williams.