Hierarchy

·noun A rank or order of holy beings.

II. Hierarchy ·noun Dominion or authority in sacred things.

III. Hierarchy ·noun A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

IV. Hierarchy ·noun A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.