prefect
pree fekt
- n a chief officer or chief magistrate
the prefect of Paris police
- He is charged, among other things, with having ordered 90 murders, including the 1982 slaying of General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the former prefect of Palermo.
- He is prefect for the Congregation of Bishops and dean of the College of Cardinals.
- Giovanni Mercati is now its prefect, Eugene Tisserant its pro-prefect.