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What are legates?

What are legates? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of legate
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The legates were George, the Bishop of Ostia, and Theophylact, the Bishop of Todi.
The issue must have been discussed with the papal legates in 786, although it is not mentioned in the accounts that have survived.
In 1198, Pope Innocent III broached the subject of a new crusade through legates and encyclical letters.
It was afterwards once more recovered by the Church and governed by papal legates as part of the Papal States.
The papal legates also imposed penances on William and those of his supporters who had taken part in Hastings and the subsequent campaigns.
It has been suggested that this synod was the same gathering as the second council held by the legates, but historians are divided on this issue.

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