High Council

High Council may refer to:

In fiction:

  • High Council (Halo Game Series), the governmental body of The Covenant faction.
  • High Council (Star Wars), the leadership of the Alliance in the New Jedi Order series
  • High Council of the Landsraad, an inner circle of the Landsraad which arbitrated disputes among Houses in the Dune universe
  • Jedi High Council, an institution from the Star Wars series of films
  • Klingon High Council, the supreme ruling body of the Klingon Empire in the fictional Star Trek universe
  • Asgard High Council. the supreme ruling entity of the Asgard race in the fictional Stargate franchise

In religion:

  • High council (Latter Day Saints), a governing body that has existed in the church hierarchy of many Mormon/Latter Day Saint denominations
  • High Council of B'nei Noah, a group of Noahides who gathered in Israel on Monday January 10, 2006
  • High Council of The Salvation Army, the body made up of the Chief of the Staff, active Commissioners, and active Territorial Commanders

In other fields:

  • High Council of State (Algeria), a collective Algerian presidency set up by the military in 1992 following the annulled elections in December 1991
  • High Council of State (Netherlands)
  • High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, an institution responsible for many aspects of the judicial system in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Spanish High Council for Scientific Research, a council in Spain
  • High Council of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, charged with the peaceful settlement of disputes.

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or council:

    “He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
    —Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)

    “There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
    Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
    Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)