英和和英

名詞

hierarch (plural hierarchs)

1. (religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
2. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.
   • 2016 October 11, Peter Jesserer Smith, “Pope’s Canon-Law Change Strengthens East and West”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, National Catholic Register:

     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.

同意語

• ordinary

派生語