primate > define

noun

• A senior clergyman and dignitary.
  • synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate
• Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet. .

• (a.) One of the Primates.
• (a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.