Ancient World
- Archiereus title of a high priest from Ancient Greece.
- Dastur is a Zoroastrian high priest
- Hierophant, the chief priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
- NIN or EN in cuneiform script, a high priest or priestess of a Sumerian city-state's patron-deity
- Pontifex Maximus from Ancient Rome.
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