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What does hierarch mean?

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  1. (religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
  2. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.
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The Zagreb hierarch y are pleasedwith Henriquez's form and are aware of his sell-on potential.
As a hierarch whose job is to uphold all the teachings of early church councils, he is not the sort of careless syncretizer who thinks that all religions are basically the same.
But how could a hierarch of the State Church of Ireland fail to don its spirit with his mitre?
After breakfast, brother Eustace and the hierarch came sadly in their official robes into the lesser infirmary.
The hierarch rose hastily and glanced into his dark keen eyes with an inquiring look.
This year Patriarch Bartholomew, the senior hierarch of the Orthodox world, left the job to a deputy because he had flu.

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