high priest

See also: highpriest

English

Alternative forms

highpriest

Noun

high priest (plural high priests)

(religion) A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
In the Bible, the male individual 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.
(Christianity) 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.
- 2011, Robert Skidelsky, The Keynes-Hayek Rematch:
  The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention.
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 172:
  The high priest of US arms controllers
(Wicca) A second or third degree male witch in Wicca.

Synonyms

abbot (leader of a Christian or Buddhist monastery)
archbishop
godi (high priest in some Asatru or Germanic neopagan groups)
head priest, chief priest (high priest of a local temple or shrine)
mahant (high priest in some Hindu temples)
volkhv (high priest in some Slavic neopagan temples)

Coordinate terms

high priestess

Derived terms

Related terms

high church, High Mass

Translations

high clergyman

Akkadian: 𒂗 m (enu)
Bulgarian: първосвеще́ник (bg) m (pǎrvosvešténik), върхо́вен жрец (vǎrhóven žrec)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大祭司 (daai⁶ zai³ si¹)

Mandarin: 大祭司 (zh) (dà jìsī), 儒生 (zh) (rúshēng) (Confucian high priest)
Coptic: ⲁⲣⲭⲓⲉⲣⲉⲩⲥ m (arkhiereus)
Dutch: hogepriester (nl) m
Egyptian:

(ḥm-nṯr tpj m)
Finnish: ylipappi (fi)
French: grand prêtre (fr) m, grand-prêtre (fr) m
German: Hohepriester (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: ἀρχιερεύς m (arkhiereús)
Hindi: महान्त m (mahānt) (in some temples as a leader)
Hungarian: főpap (hu)
Irish: ardsagart m, uachtarán na sagart m
Italian: sommo sacerdote m
Japanese: 大祭司 (ja) (だいさいし, daisaishi), 宮司 (ja) (ぐうじ, guuji) (head priest of a Shinto shrine), 住職 (ja) (juushoku) (abbot of a Buddhist temple)
Latin: pontifex, antistes m
Macedonian: првосвештеник m (prvosveštenik)
Malay: paderi tinggi
Manx: ard-saggyrt m
Plautdietsch: Huagapriesta m
Polish: arcykapłan (pl) m
Portuguese: sumo sacerdote m
Romanian: mare preot (ro) m
Russian: первосвяще́нник (ru) m (pervosvjaščénnik), волхв (ru) m (volxv) (Slavic neopaganaism)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: главни свештеник, главни жрец

Roman: glavni sveštenik, glavni žrec
Spanish: sumo sacerdote m
Thai: มหาปุโรหิต
Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎁 𐎋𐎅𐎐 (rb khn)
Yup'ik: allgiliyaq

Bible: male person responsible for making the annual sacrifice

Dutch: Hogepriester m
Finnish: ylipappi (fi)
French: Grand Prêtre m, souverain sacrificateur m, Grand-prêtre m
German: Hoherpriester (de) m
Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌾𐌰 m (ufargudja)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀρχιερεύς m (arkhiereús)
Italian: sommo sacerdote m
Plautdietsch: Huagepriesta m
Swahili: Kuhani Mkuu

Jesus Christ — see Jesus Christ

office in Mormonism

Finnish: ylipappi (fi)
Macedonian: првосвештеник m (prvosveštenik)
Polish: arcykapłan (pl) m
Russian: первосвяще́нник (ru) m (pervosvjaščénnik)

powerful person, authority

Finnish: auktoriteetti (fi), guru (fi)

Wicca: third or fourth degree male witch

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Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ĉefpastro

References

"High Priest," Bible Dictionary, The Official Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2006.

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