| A postulant who wishes to enter the spiritual life has a sponsor who presents him to the hierarch. |
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| But, in the end, I don't really care to stand here and tell you what a liar this or that politician or clerical hierarch or fat-cat business tycoon is. |
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| This year Patriarch Bartholomew, the senior hierarch of the Orthodox world, left the job to a deputy because he had flu. |
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| Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas. |
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| As a hierarch whose job is to uphold all the teachings of early church councils, he is not the sort of careless syncretizer who thinks that all religions are basically the same. |
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| The third Dge-lugs-pa hierarch, Bsod-nams-rgya-mtsho, was invited to visit the powerful Tümed Mongol leader Altan Khan, with whom he revived the patron-priest relationship that had existed between Kublai Khan and Phags-paa. |
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