high priest
Noun
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Noun
high priest (plural high priests)
- A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
- In the history of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh), the male person who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Always a descendant of Aaron the older brother of Moses.
- Jesus Christ.
- (Mormonism) The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- Jake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric.
- A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement.
- (Wicca) A third degree (sometimes forth degree) male witch in Wicca.
- French: grand prêtre, grand-prêtre
- German: Hohepriester
- Italian: sommo sacerdote
- Portuguese: sumo sacerdote
- Russian: первосвяще́нник
- Spanish: sumo sacerdote
- French: Grand Prêtre, souverain sacrificateur, Grand-prêtre
- German: Hoherpriester
- Italian: sommo sacerdote
- Russian: первосвяще́нник
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