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High Council may refer to:
In fiction:
- High Council of Time Lords, the governing body of the Time Lords in Doctor Who
- High Council, the governmental body of The Covenant faction in the Halo video game series
- High Council, the leadership of the Alliance in the Star Wars New Jedi Order novel 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 film series
- 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.
In Mormonism, a high council is one of several different governing bodies that have existed in the church hierarchy on many Latter Day Saint movement denominations. Most often, the term refers to a stake high council in a local stake, but other high councils include the standing Presiding High Council in Zion, and the "travelling high council", better-known today as the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Usage examples of "high council".
The Elven High Council has to be told that the King and his sons are dead.
I wish to confer with the High Council at their earliest convenience.
I understand why you would not wish such an effort to be made public, but I would appreciate it greatly if the two other members of the High Council were so informed.
She had seen a seal used by the High Council of Speakers of Hrruba.
Never in the history of our people have we held a high council meeting of such importance, and certainly never have we held a council of importance elsewhere than our own world, and with folk other than our own kind in attendance.
They couldn't keep him incarcerated for a violation of their staunch, outdated High Council rules, as they had planned.
Tell the High Council that you want to be king, that you and I will adopt those two small boys who have lost their family and make them our sons.
Formal announcement of Ballindarroch's pleasure at hearing of his return arrived almost at once, but no summons to appear before the king or High Council accompanied it.