What is "archpriests"

Usage examples of "archpriests".

The Temple Upperpriests and Archpriests of Styphon's House are out-and-out crooks and make no apologies for it.

All the Archpriests she'd seen on spool had shared the same look of innate superiority.

In actuality, Styphon's Voice is typically a figurehead chosen to represent the interests of the Inner Circle of Archpriests, a closely connected group of thirty-six Archpriests which includes the highpriest of each Great Kingdom High Temples of Styphon.

However, this is not the case on the Kalvan Control time-lines where Roxthar is viewed as a crackpot by the other Archpriests of the Inner Circle and his harangues on Styphon's Divinity are greeted with derision.

Only Archpriests Cimon and Roxthar looked comfortable in the white robes of village underpriests.

All the Archpriests, but Anaxthenes, made the sign of Ormaz's forked tongue with the first two fingers of both hands.

There were a few confirming nods, but most of the Archpriests averted their eyes.

The weakness shown by Styphon's traitorous Archpriests has weakened his faith even further.

Even now half the Archpriests of the Inner Circle were his former charges.

With a clear majority of the thirty-six Archpriests of the Inner Circle behind him, Anaxthenes was forging a program that would change the shape of Styphon's House in ways the others would never realize until it was too late.

They didn't have enough intelligence about the enemy's plans, potential resources or high command—which for the time being meant the Inner Circle of Archpriests at Balph, the Holy City.

So they had moved the Council, Archpriests, bodyguards, baggage trains, old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, to Styphon's House Upon Earth—the largest of the golden temples of Styphon.

This document denounced the words of the traitorous dupes of the Usurper Kalvan, the so-called Archpriests Zothnes and Krastocles who had fraudulently disparaged the other True Gods except for the False Dralm, god of bilge-cleaners and latrine-diggers.

The names of highpriests, upperpriests and archpriests swirled past Kalvan until he felt as if he were reading a long Russian novel without a cast of characters to help him keep track of who was doing what to whom.

The Archpriests were not about to defeat Kalvan only to make one of the other Great Kings an equally dangerous adversary.