Possible Clues:

• Senior clergyman or chief priest
• Taller ship picked up high priest
• After yesterday's French translation bend over and get the ruler
• Senior clergyman and dignitary
• Chief priest
• High priest's casual greeting, unusual around church
• That woman's mischievous, taking in current leader
• Authority figure
• One way up in the rankings
• The princely -- / In their bright stand there left his Powers to seize/ Possession of the Garden' (Milton, Paradise Lost)