High Priest

The term "high priest" (or, less frequently, high priestess) usually refers either to an individual who holds the office of ruler-priest, or to one who is the head of a religious caste.

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Famous quotes containing the words high and/or priest:

    “There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The old priest Peter Gilligan
    Was weary night and day;
    For half his flock were in their beds,
    Or under green sods lay.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)