Meanings of spiritual ruler in English

The Pope was to be no longer supreme spiritual ruler.

He was already their spiritual ruler, and they made him also their temporal ruler.

The temporal ruler is also the spiritual ruler, the king, the chief pastor, and the clergy his servants.

The spiritual ruler of the world, the king of kings, Heaven's viceroy upon earth, was flying for his life.

He probably did not dream of subjecting the princes of the earth except in matters which pertained to his supremacy as a spiritual ruler.

He saw Christendom here in the west, and a great feudal society, acknowledging Castile for overlord, and Alexander the Sixth as its spiritual ruler.

The thrones not only of the temporal but of the spiritual rulers, are dripping with the blood of their fellow-men.

Hence the universal respect which the whole race entertains for their spiritual rulers, and their unutterable confidence in their high prerogatives.

Every Christian congregation, like every synagogue, had its elders; and every city had its presbytery, consisting of the spiritual rulers of the district.

Soon the remnants of the empire, scattered throughout the peninsula, recognised the Dukes of Rome (or bishops) as their political and spiritual rulers.