"senior priest" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The senior priest at the church gave the sermon during the Sunday service."
"He was very, very effective as Bishop of Stepney," said another senior priest.
Lending his familiar authority as a senior priest who does not like rock music is Alec McCowen.
Even though a senior priest, Antonio would not have been subject to any kind of, as it were, Girò check.
Church authorities' position on the protesters shifted several times, and the cathedral's dean and a senior priest both resigned over the issue.
"You would think that a senior priest in the church would have a better understanding of anti-Semitism than to make this hideous comparison," he said.
In large shrines he generally has serving under him the gon-gūji (associate chief priest), negi (priest, or senior priest), and gon-negi ( junior priest).
Mr. Karsten said that Mr. Sasaki's senior priests are conducting their own inquiry.
On average, senior priests are paid about $20 a month; deacons about $2.
A team of diocesan officials and senior priests drafted from the diocese is more than halfway done.
The title was later extended to the most senior priests in the city's parish churches and the bishops of the seven dioceses around Rome.
By 1977, Pell was a member of the College of Consultors of the Ballarat Diocese, a group of senior priests who advised Bishop Ronald Mulkearns on the appointment of priests to parishes.
