- Chief character in a line - Church dignitary - Fundamentally important - Papacy candidate - Pope’s former role was fundamentally important - Prince of the church - Roman Catholic prelate
- Capital city - Chief city - The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or
country. - The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest
church dignitary.
- High ranking ecclesiastic - Highly ranked clergyman - A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a
bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the
church. - To act as a prelate.
- Parent - Patriarch - One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a
generator; a male parent. - A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor;
especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the
plural, fathers, ancestors. - One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance,
affetionate care, counsel, or protection. - A respectful mode of address to an old man. - A senator of ancient Rome.
- Church leader - Highly ranked clergyman - Primate - Senior clergy member - Senior clergyman - Top Anglican cleric - A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class
(often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct
of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal
authority in his own diocese.