Sentence examples for supreme priest from inspiring English sources

…Ise, the supreme priestess, the saishu ("chief of the religious ceremonies"), ranks even above the supreme priest, the dai-gūji.

In the Grand Shrine of Ise, the supreme priestess, the saishu ("chief of the religious ceremonies"), ranks even above the supreme priest, the dai-gūji.

The shrine is administered by the supreme priestess, the saishu ("chief of the religious ceremonies"); she ranks above the daiguji, the supreme priest.

Under the republic they emerge into prominence under a pontifex maximus, or supreme priest, who took over the king's duties as chief administrator of religious law.

Out of deference to the Christian church, he omitted the words pontifex maximus ("supreme priest") from his title the first Roman ruler to do so and ordered the removal of the pagan statue of Victory from the Senate in Rome.

Curiously, after the newly converted emperor Constantine (died 337) transferred the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople in 330, Rome's civil authority was weakened, but its spiritual authority was strengthened: the title "supreme priest" (pontifex maximus), which had been the prerogative of the emperor, now devolved upon the pope.

The kabaka was also the high priest and supreme judge of the land.

For 1,500 years, from the era of Alexander the Great to the late 13th century, a high Mesopotamian priest in Babylon ruled as the supreme leader of Eastern Jewry.

Mr. Beauvoir, tall and majestic with closely cropped white hair, is a voodoo priest who was just named the religion's supreme master, a newly created position that is aimed at reviving voodoo.

The Catholic recusants, who huddled in priest-holes rather than acknowledge the monarch as supreme governor of the church, will be smiling a little grimly, too.

It was the priests and the passive slaves, however, who played the supreme moment of the ritual.