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viceregent

n. The official administrative deputy of a regent; vicegerent.

Usage examples of "viceregent".

Most of the usual dignitaries were present for the election: the College and Council cardinals, the Secretary General, the Vicar General and Viceregent, chief papal officers of the Kingdom of Naples, the more distinguished Bishops and all the bevy of hangers-on such an assemblage required.

It was clear that she occupied a place of high importance among them, and I wondered, not for the first time, if she were the woman of whom the Foulahs had spoken -- the ruler of the Azombeii and the living viceregent of the goddess WanaƓs.