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hierarch

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hierarch noun

  1. One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
  2. A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.

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ordinaryhigh priestarchpriestprelateprimatehierocratarchchiefoverchiefchurchmanordinanthierarch

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