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(religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.

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hierarch

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hierarch

Noun

(religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.

Japanese Meaning

宗教において、神聖な事柄を統括する最高位の権威を持つ者、すなわち聖なる秩序の最高権者

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The hierarch declared new liturgical guidelines that reshaped parish practices across the diocese.

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教会の高位聖職者が教区全体の礼拝慣習を一変させる新しい典礼指針を発表した。

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(religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.

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(Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.

The law states that the local ordinary can give to any Catholic priest the faculty to bless the marriages of non-Catholic Eastern Christians if the faithful voluntarily ask for it and the priest prudently informs the appropriate hierarch.

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hierarchs

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