hierarch
Noun
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A person who holds a high position in a hierarchy (synset 110189530)
is a type of: important person, influential person, personage - a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of eventsbelongs to: hierarchy, pecking order, power structure - the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
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A senior clergyman and dignitary (synset 109826498)
is a type of: priest - a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Ordersspecific instances:
- gloomy dean, inge, william ralph inge - English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954)
- francisco jimenez de cisneros, jimenez de cisneros - prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517)
- cardinal newman, john henry newman, newman - English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
- armand jean du plessis, cardinal richelieu, duc de richelieu, richelieu - French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)
- desmond tutu, tutu - South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)
- james usher, james ussher, usher, ussher - Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
- william of wykeham, wykeham - English prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404)
- stefan wyszynski, wyszynski - Polish prelate who persuaded the Soviet to allow greater religious freedom in Poland (1901-1981)
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