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• n  a senior clergyman and dignitary

• A Shinto archpriest, bearded and stately, heralded the Tenno's death to his ancestors at Tokyo.
• Emperor Hirohito, the living god and archpriest of Shinto, will soon embrace Christianity.
• It was an expensive business, for even though he was rich by the standards of Roghudi, Mayor Nucera, a landholder and the nephew of the local archpriest, could not afford those .

• hierarch
• high priest
• prelate
• primate