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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Hierarchy
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Orders, Hierarchy of
• Jurisdiction, Hierarchy of
• Hierarchy, Celestial
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• Hierarchies
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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• Hierarchy of the Early Church
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(1):

(n.) A rank or order of holy beings.

(2):

(n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

(3):

(n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things.

(4):

(n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.