- 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.
- Bishop of Rome - Church head - Church leader - Pontiff - St Peter’s heir - Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. - The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
See Note under Cardinal.
- Leader of the Presbyterian church - Negotiator - Presiding officer - Someone who presides over a forum or debate - One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or
pacifies. - The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve
order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the
votes. - In the University of Oxford, an examiner for
moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for
degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in
rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
- Clergy member - Clergyman - Clergyman parks car after six - Four return to vehicle to get clergyman - Member of the clergy - Parish incumbent - Parish minister