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- This is an index of religious honorifics from various religions. |Hiereus |A male priest in ****enism aka Gr**** paganism. |} |Hieria |A female priestess...
- regular Latin word for "priest" being sacerdos, corresponding to ἱερεύς hiereús. It is possible that the Latin word was loaned into Old English, and only...
- presbyter as the etymological origin, the distinctive Gr**** word (Gr**** ἱερεύς hiereus) for "priest" is never used for presbyteros/episkopos in the New Testament...
- priestesses in ancient Gr**** religion, being the equivalent of the male title hiereus (ἱερεύς). Ancient Greece had a number of different offices in charge of...
- "overseer of sacred rites". The general consensus states that the term "hiereus" is the most common Gr**** term used to describe the closest pagan equivalent...
- Theseus to take her to Athens. The Snake Priestess, speaking through the Hiereus, advises Ariadne to give Theseus a ball of twine. If he unwinds it as he...
- translated as "prophet" or "seer". A mantis is to be distinguished from a hiereus, "priest," or hiereia, "priestess," by the parti****tion of the latter...
- Great in Alexandria (the σῆμα, sēma), and appointed a priest (ἱερεύς, hiereus) to conduct religious rites there. This office quickly advanced to become...
- hierarches (ἱεράρχης, 'president of sacred rites, high-priest') and that from hiereus (ἱερεύς, 'priest') and arche (ἀρχή, 'first place or power, rule'). Dionysius...
- this matter is caused by the difference between the Gr**** words ἱερεύς (hiereus meaning "sacred one"; represented in Latin by the word sacerdos) and πρεσβύτερος...