A vicar is a priest in the Church of England who looks after one local church and the people living in that area. He or she leads Sunday services, marries people, buries people, baptises babies, visits the sick, and is generally the person the village turns to. The word belongs to England, and to the Church of England in particular; Catholics say priest or father, and most other churches say pastor or minister. If you are writing about a church in Taiwan or America, vicar is usually the wrong word. Since the 1990s women can be vicars too, so 'she is our vicar' is completely normal now. The vicar of a place is often named that way — 'the Vicar of Dibley', 'the vicar of St Mary's'. In old England there was a real difference between a vicar and a rector — it was about who got the church income — but almost nobody feels that difference today; ordinary people just say vicar for the local church leader. In everyday speech the word also carries a gentle, slightly comic feeling in British culture: the vicar is the mild, tea-drinking, kind man in old TV shows. That is a stereotype, not the job.