High Priest

the chief priest in any faith, he who occupies the highest ged in the hierarchy, as the Pontifex Maximus among the Romans. In Judaism, the divinely-appointed heac of the Jewish hierarchy. The first tc hold the office was Aaron. ‘The of: fice was to descend lineally in his family. The high priests were to be without blemish, were to avoid eating things which died of themselves, o1 marrying a widow or a divorced person. They were not to make mourn: ing for private or domestic sorrows.