A church that is autonomous has its highest-ranking bishop, such as an archbishop or metropolitan, appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but is self-governing in all other respects.

A church that is autonomous has its highest-ranking bishop, such as an archbishop or metropolitan, appointed by the patriarch of the mother church from which it was granted its autonomy, but is self-governing in all other respects.

He is the first Hispanic to serve as Archbishop of Los Angeles, as well as the highest-ranking Hispanic bishop in the United States.

He is one of the highest-ranking men in England and the highest ranking non-royal in the United Kingdom's order of precedence.

Larger geographical areas, called Territories, are led by a Territorial Commander, who is the highest-ranking officer in that Territory.

Following this reform, the entire Psalter is again generally recited each week, with the festal psalms restricted to only the highest-ranking feasts.

There is much variation ; often the CEO also holds the title of President, while in other organizations if there is a separate CEO, the President is then second highest-ranking position.

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps ( CMC ) is normally the highest-ranking officer in the United States Marine Corps and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Chief of Naval Operations is typically the highest-ranking officer on active-duty in the U. S. Navy unless the Chairman and / or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are naval officers.

The Chief Executive is the head of the special administrative region, and is also the highest-ranking official in the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and is the head of the executive branch.

A hierarchy is typically visualized as a pyramid, where the height of the ranking or person depicts their power status and the width of that level represents how many people or business divisions are at that level relative to the whole — the highest-ranking people are at the apex, and there are very few of them ; the base may include thousands of people who have no subordinates ).

* The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese Paramount leader.

The highest-ranking officer in Syria's navy is the equivalent of lieutenant general.

The highest-ranking General in the history of the Indian Air Force is a Punjabi Sikh Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh .< ref >

The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence.

As the highest-ranking member of the cabinet, the Secretary of State is the third-highest official of the executive branch of the Federal Government of the United States, after the President and Vice President and is fourth in line to succeed the Presidency, coming after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President pro tempore of the Senate.

The Speaker is the highest-ranking member of the opposition party and is normally the chief public opponent of the President's agenda.

When there are several vice presidents in a company they are sometimes ranked by naming the highest-ranking Senior Executive Vice President which is next to President, the second highest-ranking Executive Vice President, then Senior Vice President and the remainder of the management team just VP.

* one of the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, earlier, the five that were included in the Pentarchy: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, but now nine, excluding Rome and including patriarchs of Serbia, Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania ; or

If there is no bring-in, then the first betting round begins with the player showing the highest-ranking upcard, who may check.

If there is no bring-in, then the first betting round begins with the player showing the highest-ranking upcard, who may check.

Spiro T. Agnew, who was the Governor of Maryland from 1967 – 1969, later served as the Vice-President of the United States for a time under President Richard M. Nixon, and Agnew is, thus far, the highest-ranking Marylander in the history of the United States.

Polybius noted that it was the consuls ( the highest-ranking of the regular magistrates ) who led the armies and the civil government in Rome, and it was the Roman assemblies which had the ultimate authority over elections, legislation, and criminal trials.

The Senate was directed by a presiding magistrate, who was usually either a consul ( the highest-ranking magistrate ) or, if the consul was unavailable, a Praetor ( the second-highest ranking magistrate ).

The Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (), sometimes also referred to as the " Prime Minister " informally, is the Leader of the State Council of the People's Republic of China ( the " Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China " after 1954 ), who is the head of government and holds the highest-ranking ( Level 1 ) of the Civil service of the People's Republic of China.

The second highest-ranking member of the Sanhedrin was called the Av Beit Din, or " Head of the Court " ( literally, Beit Din = " house of law "), who presided over the Sanhedrin when it sat as a criminal court.

The highest-ranking Soviet Bloc intelligence defector, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, described his conversation with Nicolae Ceauşescu, who told him about " ten international leaders the Kremlin killed or tried to kill ".

In the U. S. and Canada, an editor who does this work is called a copy editor, and an organization's highest-ranking copy editor, or the supervising editor of a group of copy editors, may be known as the copy chief, copy desk chief, or news editor.

She is also the longest-serving / highest-ranking Democrat who is not a present chairperson of a full standing committee.

The Serbian General Staff is composed of the highest-ranking officers who form the basic strategic command.

He was the highest-ranking player who had not yet won a Stanley Cup, the next highest being No. 38-ranked Dionne.

After a grueling battle, Hyoh and Ken reconcile their differences and Kenshiro seeks out the highest-ranking and most powerful of the three overlords, Kaioh, who is Raoh's biological older brother.

The highest-ranking European delegate was Alexander Nevsky's father, Grand Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich of Vladimir and Suzdal, who died suspiciously just after dining with Toregene Khatun.

The highest-ranking Soviet Bloc intelligence defector, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa claimed to have a conversation he had with Nicolae Ceauşescu, who told him about " ten international leaders the Kremlin killed or tried to kill ": Laszlo Rajk and Imre Nagy from Hungary ; Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej from Romania ; Rudolf Slánský and Jan Masaryk from Czechoslovakia ; the Shah of Iran ; Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan ; Palmiro Togliatti from Italy ; John F. Kennedy ; and Mao Zedong.

The highest-ranking military officer in the department is the Chief of Staff of the Army, who is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The person responsible for the murder was Joe " Pegleg " Morgan-the notorious white godfather of La Eme who had ascended by then to become one of the highest-ranking bosses of the entire Eme organization, even with no " official " Mexican blood himself.

The highest-ranking officer at Hanscom AFB after the reorganization will be a major general, who will be the Program Executive Officer for the C3I and Networks AFPEO.

Some of the characters close to Tito whom Maclean met in his first months in Bosnia were Vlatko Velebit, an urbane young man about town, who later went with Maclean to Allied HQ as a liaison officer ; Father Vlado ( Vlado Zechevich ), a Serbian Orthodox priest, " raconteur and trencherman "; Arso Jovanović, the Chief of Staff ; Edo Kardelj, the Marxist theoretician who ended up vice-premier ; Aleksandar Ranković, a professional revolutionary and Party organiser ; Milovan Đilas ( Dzilas ), who became vice-president ; Moša Pijade, one of the highest-ranking Jews ; and a young woman named Olga whose father had been a minister in the Royalist government and who spoke English like a debutante.

The highest-ranking British officer in Egypt, known as the Sirdar, also served as Governor General of the Sudan.

Agnew's Vice Presidency was also the highest-ranking US political office ever reached by either a Greek American citizen or a Marylander.

These resignations left Solicitor General Robert Bork as the highest-ranking member of the Justice Department ; insisting that he believed the decision unwise but also that somebody had to obey the president's orders, Bork dismissed Cox.

His father Vitale was a close advisor of Doge Vitale II Michiel, while an uncle, also named Enrico Dandolo, was patriarch of Grado, the highest-ranking churchman in Venice.

In particular, the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church ( above Major Archbishop and Primate ), and the Assyrian Church of the East are termed Patriarchs ( and in certain cases also popes ).

Following him were Imam Muhtadi and Imam Qahir, also living in concealment from the general population, but in touch with the highest-ranking members of the Ismaili hierarchy ( hudūd ).

She was also the highest-ranking official in the Swiss order of precedence, and had the power to act on behalf of the whole Council in emergency situations.

") The Nicene Creed was also recited at Mass, which is normally not said except on Sundays and the highest-ranking feast days.

On the same day, Brigadier V. A. Williams, commanding the 8th Infantry Brigade, became the highest-ranking Canadian officer captured in World War I, also at the Battle of Mount Sorrel.

FCK plays in the Danish Superliga and is one of the most successful clubs in Danish football: it is also the highest-ranking Scandinavian club in the UEFA team rankings list, currently the 44th best club in Europe.

Since September 1947, the CNO has held the additional position of Chief of Staff of the U. S. Navy, and he is the highest-ranking naval officer except when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is also a U. S. Navy officer.

However, the General Prologue also provides an ideal member of each estate as a model with which the others can be compared and contrasted-the Parson, the Knight ( technically not a nobleman, but the highest-ranking layman present ), and the Plowman.

She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her Secretary of Labor.

The Allston Burr Resident Dean ( for many decades the Allston Burr Senior Tutor ) is an assistant Dean of Harvard College and is also the highest-ranking official, other than the Master, of any of Harvard's twelve undergraduate Houses, responsible for the academic and disciplinary well-being of the House's undergraduates.

According to Oleg Gordievsky ( the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to defect ) and Pavel Sudoplatov ( former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR ), Pontecorvo was also a Soviet agent.

The Chancellor ( Chinese:, zǎixiàng ;, chéngxiàng ) – also translated Chief Councillor and Prime Minister – was a generic name given to the highest-ranking official in the imperial government in ancient China.