hierarch

Definitions

1. One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
2. A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.

Equivalents

Examples

“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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