noun

• A person, especially a priest, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles.

  ‘The dedicatory inscription on a statue base found in the Agora Excavations throws new light on relations between families of hierophants and daduchs in the late second and early third century A.D.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘As it happens, we know the hierophants who served from the reign of Antoninus Pius to ca. 191: Flavius Leosthenes and Julius Hierophantes.’
  • ‘The father of Apollonios the hierophant was, as mentioned above, C. Iulius Casianus Apollonios of Steiria.’
  • ‘In order for her to be the granddaughter of the hierophant Casianus Apollonios, her father must of course be his son, therefore born presumably ca. 175-180.’
  • ‘Clearly this hierophant had achieved a social and political status similar to that enjoyed by Apollonios.’