Possible Definitions:
1. Hierarchy (n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things.
2. Hierarchy (n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
3. Hierarchy (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
4. Hierarchy (n.) A rank or order of holy beings.
