This was the third time in eight months that a hierarch had been elevated in defiance of the pope.
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Meanwhile a hierarch associated with fractionally more liberal positions on abortion was moved sideways.
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Asura is used in the earliest Vedic literature as a title of the cosmic hierarch or supreme spirit.
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All of this has magnified the level of corporate intrigue that confronts Stringer or any multinational hierarch.
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The presiding bishop offered the Cross to the monarchs for kissing, while another hierarch sprinkled them with holy water.
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From 1963 until 2002, the official title of its chief hierarch was Archbishop of Novozybkov, Moscow and all Russia.
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As outlined below, the term Catholicos began to be employed in the church for a local hierarch with expanded territorial authority.
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Runcie declared last month that unless church law changes, neither he nor any other English hierarch may recognize a woman bishop or the priests she ordains.
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According to its charter, the position of head of state of the Central Tibetan Administration belongs ex officio to the current Dalai Lama, a religious hierarch.
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A person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
Archpriest: a senior clergyman and dignitary
In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church's laws. The term comes from the Latin word ordinarius.
(Hierarchs (Halo)) Recurring characters from the science fiction media franchise Halo are organized below by their respective factions in the fictional universe. ...
One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs
A term denoting a person that has a job at the administration level of the federation. They serve as an advisory council to the Lord of the Joust.