hierarch

• His own father, a rich merchant and a church-hierarch, a “stake” of the tabernacle (much as we should say a pillar), had but one—his own dear mother—and he scarcely knew any one with more. —  My Life as an Author
• S. BUNTMAN: That is such a person, more likely here, by disposition would be such a hierarch, such a pralade [sic], such a one would be not needed more likely, you consider now? —  Robert Amsterdam
• Ostrov (Остров), about a monk striving to overcome his painful past at an isolated monastery in northern Russia, became a modest hit at the Toronto International Film Festival after its release in 2006 published an article about the revival of interest in Orthodoxy in the Russian media, including in the Russian edition of Patriarch Alexy II, the first post-Soviet hierarch of the Church, created a flurry of round-the-clock media coverage for several days. —  Russia Blog
• Would anyone despise all the members of a diocese because they had a doctrinally unsound hierarch? —  Charlotte was Both
• A distinguished Russian hierarch (Filaret, Metropolitan of Minsk), for example, has revealed that the entire production of the enormous iron mines was put to no other purpose than to make new mining equipment for the same mines! —  Paideia

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