"hierocracy" meaning in English

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        "Government by ecclesiastics."
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        "The doctrine that the pope held supreme temporal, and not just spiritual, power."
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        "(historical, Middle Ages) The doctrine that the pope held supreme temporal, and not just spiritual, power."
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