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- Hierarchy - n. - Dominion or authority in sacred things.
- Hierarchy - n. - A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
- Hierarchy - n. - A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
- Hierarchy - n. - A rank or order of holy beings.
- Irvingite - n. - The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving (about 1830), who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church. They are highly ritualistic in worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy coming of Christ.
- Mormon - n. - One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.