Definition of hierarch in English:
hierarch
noun ˈhʌɪərɑːkˈhaɪ(ə)ˌrɑrk
A chief priest, archbishop, or other leader.
Example sentencesExamples
- Certainly there have been notable Orthodox hierarchs in this country and abroad, many of them Russians, whose vision of Orthodoxy and its catholic mission was a resplendent one.
- A postulant who wishes to enter the spiritual life has a sponsor who presents him to the hierarch.
- There is a mosaic in Ravenna portraying saints, martyrs, hierarchs, and faithful laity, each of them holding a crown that they will place at the feet of Christ.
- The works of their most respected theologians and thinkers are not only still unavailable in most of Russia's seminaries, but are also viewed by many hierarchs as heretical.
- Thirteen bishops of Great Russian origin and merely two Ukrainian hierarchs were consecrated in the 1760s.
- Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas.
Origin
Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhēs, from hieros 'sacred' + arkhēs 'ruler'.
Definition of hierarch in US English:
hierarch
nounˈhī(ə)ˌrärkˈhaɪ(ə)ˌrɑrk
A chief priest, archbishop, or other leader.
Example sentencesExamples
- A postulant who wishes to enter the spiritual life has a sponsor who presents him to the hierarch.
- Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas.
- Thirteen bishops of Great Russian origin and merely two Ukrainian hierarchs were consecrated in the 1760s.
- The works of their most respected theologians and thinkers are not only still unavailable in most of Russia's seminaries, but are also viewed by many hierarchs as heretical.
- There is a mosaic in Ravenna portraying saints, martyrs, hierarchs, and faithful laity, each of them holding a crown that they will place at the feet of Christ.
- Certainly there have been notable Orthodox hierarchs in this country and abroad, many of them Russians, whose vision of Orthodoxy and its catholic mission was a resplendent one.
Origin
Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhēs, from hieros ‘sacred’ + arkhēs ‘ruler’.