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Hierarch
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Hierarch meaning
One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order. | A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.
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Example sentences (4)
We heard on vespers Saturday evening: Are there any lips of earthborn men that can worthily extol the Hierarch?
Administration of the sacrament is reserved to the Parish Priest or to another priest to whom he or the local hierarch grants permission, a permission that can be presumed if in accordance with canon law.
Such rights belong to the ruling hierarch and it can only happen when the blessing of the patriarch is received.
Then the patriarch gives his blessing and the local hierarch performs the act of canonization at the local level.