1. Noun
Dominion or authority in sacred things.
2. Noun
A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
3. Noun
A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
4. Noun
A rank or order of holy beings.
5. Noun
a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"
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