Definition of Hierarchy

Hierarchy

Dominion or authority in sacred things.

A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.

A rank or order of holy beings.

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Hierarchy Quotations

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
Dee Hock

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Ben Kingsley

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
William P. Leahy

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
Richard Linklater

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.
Mary Douglas

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.
William P. Leahy

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
Mary Douglas

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
C. Wright Mills

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
William P. Leahy

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
William P. Leahy

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.
William P. Leahy

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.
Rocco Buttiglione

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
David Deutsch

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
Jurgen Klinsmann

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
Robert Rainy

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
Joseph Needham

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.
Robert Vaughan

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Hierarchy Translations

hierarchy in German is Hierarchie
hierarchy in Hungarian is rangsor, rangszervezet, hierarchia

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