hierarch

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“I had the honor of knowing a hierarch who did not hesitate to directly express his opinion, regardless of whether this would displease his interlocutor or even a section of society,” Anastasiades said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022

Those include Bartholomew Samaras, a key confidante of the patriarch; Emmanuel Adamakis, an influential hierarch in the church; and Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, who heads a prestigious seminary on the Turkish island of Halki.

From Washington Times • Aug. 27, 2018

No human, from the greenest convert to the most supreme hierarch, can “lower the bar.”

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

The Church of England's second ranking hierarch, the Archbishop of York, spoke too of Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was no ordinary scholar, this man, but the apotheosis of scholars: the most famous personage in Zosma, save the queen and the hierarch, and the most popular, bar none.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor