Ecclesiastical Luminary Crossword Clue

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	noun • a senior clergyman and dignitary
	31%	11		An ecclesiastical or civil officer who has the power to confer certain ecclesiastical or lay orders
	noun • A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome. • One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications. • A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts. • (Greek Orthodox Church) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
	28%	9		Famous luminary
	noun • an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

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New York Times27 Sep 1986	Down 39
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