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