High Priest - Ancient World

Ancient World

  • Archiereus title of a high priest from Ancient Greece.
  • Dastur is a Zoroastrian high priest
  • Hierophant, the chief priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
  • NIN or EN in cuneiform script, a high priest or priestess of a Sumerian city-state's patron-deity
  • Pontifex Maximus from Ancient Rome.

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