Hierarch

God calls our Hierarch, Angel, since he participates, according to his own capacity, in the messenger characteristic of the Angels, and elevates himself, as far as attainable to men, to the likeness of their revealing office.

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

'Whenever the Ordinary or Hierarch receives a report of a reserved delict which has at least a semblance of truth — notitiam saltem verisimilem — once the preliminary investigation has been completed, he is to communicate the matter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith …'

Vatican Scrambles to Clarify Policy on Abuse Claims Stacy Meichtry 2010

'Whenever the Ordinary or Hierarch receives a report of a reserved delict which has at least a semblance of truth — notitiam saltem verisimilem — once the preliminary investigation has been completed, he is to communicate the matter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith …'

Vatican Scrambles to Clarify Policy on Abuse Claims Stacy Meichtry 2010

'Whenever the Ordinary or Hierarch receives a report of a reserved delict which has at least a semblance of truth — notitiam saltem verisimilem — once the preliminary investigation has been completed, he is to communicate the matter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith …'

Vatican Scrambles to Clarify Policy on Abuse Claims Stacy Meichtry 2010

The Hierarch whom Tzadkiel had called his son lay sprawled in the aisle.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

Since the original conquest of Antillia and the construction of great Ptahuacan, the Xotlian priesthood, under the hereditary Hierarch of the Sacred Mysteries of Xotli, had ruled with an iron hand, despite occasional outbursts of rebellion on the part of their subjects.

Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

To sustain the linkages between the Hierarch of the Mysteries in this world and the Demon of Darkness in the nighted depths of its unknown dimensions beyond the universe, the raw life-force of the victims was projected into the other worldly abyss.

Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

I had not known until now that the Hierarch (may his spirit be reborn in a tapeworm!) had been raiding the unknown lands to the east.

Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

Hierarch as he was, and orthodox Catholic, this most elegant of eloquent orators had a liberal strain in his blood which allied him politically with the "philosophers" of the time succeeding.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

With these last words recited in a solemn, and, as it were, an inspired voice, the Hierarch lifted an immense stone from the roadway, and placing it on the top of the Burden, so as considerably to add to its weight, went on his way.

On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911