Definition of hierarch Hierarch

hi•er•arch

We found 6 definitions of hierarch from 5 different sources.

What does hierarch mean?

Noun Plural: hierarches
hierarch - a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
		important person, influential person, personage a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
hierarch - a senior clergyman and dignitary
		archpriest, high priest, prelate, primate
		priest a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

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hierarch (Noun)
One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

hierarch (n.)
One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

hierarch
hī′ėr-ärk, n. a ruler in sacred matters.—adjs. Hi′erarchal, Hierarch′ical.—adv. Hierarch′ically.—ns. Hī′erarchism; Hī′erarchy, rule in sacred matters: persons that so rule: the body of the clergy: a government by priests: a series of successive terms of different rank; Hieroc′racy, government by priests.—Celestial hierarchy, the collective body of angels, grouped in three divisions and nine orders of different power and glory: (1) seraphim, cherubim, thrones; (2) dominations or dominions, virtues, powers; (3) principalities, archangels, angels. [Gr. hierarchēs—hieros, sacred, archein, to rule.]