Meaning of hierarch | Babel Free

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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