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* Father Conello, the priest of Leto's Church on ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Evil.
* The Elder on the Assasi Village on ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', who founded a [[Cargo Cult]] around an abandoned [[Humongous Mecha|Gammen]]. Not evil, but does use his religion to make killing children [[For the Greater Good]] more palatable.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has a couple of late arcs in which we start to learn who exactly our main character is and why he inhabits a puzzle, and it turns out that Seto Kaiba, an early antagonist who edged toward [[Noble Demon]] since his second return from [[Put Onon a Bus]] defeat, though he never quite accepted that [[Defeat Means Friendship]], is the reincarnation of the the [[High Priest]] who served under the Puzzle Spirit three thousand years ago<ref>in some lost period of New Kingdom history, apparently, unless you follow another translation and make it five thousand, which makes him the Scorpion King or something and doesn't agree with the architecture</ref>, and apparently only betrayed him because of [[Mind Control]] from his own dead father, the previous [[High Priest]] [[Big Screwed-Up Family|and the previous Pharaoh's younger twin brother]]. Who made the magic gold jewelry by ''burning [[Ax Crazy|Bakura's]] family alive.''
 
== [[Film]] ==
* In the film ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'', the Na'vi tribe Jake meets is led by a husband-wife pair: the husband is the military chief, and the wife is the high priestess. Their daughter, [[The Chief's Daughter|Neytiri]], is to follow in this tradition and be the next high priestess.
* [http://limoday.blogspot.com/2011/01/limhotep.html Imhotep] from the black and white ''[[The Mummy (Filmfilm)|The Mummy]]''.
* [http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2010/10/29/a-dangerous-idea-that-stubbornly-refuses-to-die/ Mola] [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm473086720/ch0001075 Ram] from ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Temple of Doom]]''.
* [http://thisislandrod.blogspot.com/2011/03/beastmaster-1982.html High Priest Maax] from ''[[The Beastmaster (Film)|The Beastmaster]]'' (third one down).
* [http://akizukifantasycritic.blogspot.com/2010/10/movie-version-of-thulsa-doom.html Thulsa] [http://swellco2000.com/tag/conan-the-barbarian/ Doom] from ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]''.
* Sarm the Priest-King in the film version of ''[[Gor]]''. The Priest-Kings in the book are nothing like that.
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* In [[The Bible]], Israel went through a period of being ruled by "Judges" like Samuel. God was actually [[Aristocrats Are Evil|very displeased]] when the Jews asked for a regular king.
* High Priest Hughon Ridcully is the High Priest of the Ankh-Morpork clergy in ''[[Discworld]]'', of the sort that regards actual religious-ness as one of those tiresome things that you just have to put up with when what you really want to concentrate on is getting the pews organised.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'' Deacon Vorbis of the Omnian church plots to take over the Omnian High Priest post (The Cenobriarch) and usher in a new age of religious terror.
*** One of the effects of the Prophet Brutha's revelation on the Omnian church was to abolish the Cenobriarch and ("let there be a thousand voices") start a long train of schisms, meaning Omnians stopped running around ruling an empire of grandeur and oppression and the suppression of science and got busy arguing theology all the time and became harmless and handed out a lot of pamphlets. Which is a ''tad'' bit [[Did Not Do the Research]] if you look at some of the awful shit Protestants have pulled in the last four hundred years, but the Disc can be like that.
*** The Omnian in the Ankh-Morpork Watch (we never learn his exact denomination) is actually ''named'' Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets. They call him Visit. Of course, given Brutha achieved his great transformation from stupid youth to politically savvy prophet largely due to absorbing an [[Expy]] of the Great Library of Alexandria before it was burnt down, there may be rather sound theological reasons for those pamphlets. Although Visit was invented before Brutha.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has had three. Nimueh was the High Priestess of the Old Religion until her death at the end of season 1. It was revealed later that Morgause had become the new High Priestess, and when Morgana killed her as the blood sacrifice to open the veil between worlds, she became the new High Priestess.
 
== [[Mythology]] ==
* Aaron, in the ''[[ExodusBook (Literature)of Exodus|Exodus]]''.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'': [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214352 Elesh] [http://www.planeswalkerslibrary.com/images/action/Elesh_Norn.jpg Norn], Grand [[The Blank|Cenobite]] is the leader of [[The Legions of Hell|New Phyrexia]]'s [[Light Is Not Good|white-aligned]] faction, the [[Religion of Evil|Machine Orthodoxy]].
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has several:
** Ecclesiarch, the head of the Adeptus Ministorum, or Eccelsiarchy, the state church of the Imperium of Man.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Galius from ''[[Exit Fate (Video Game)|Exit Fate]]'', High Priest of Cento while also Governor of Oischin.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"|Habaruku/Habalk]] in ''[[Breath of Fire 2]]'' is the High Priest of the Church of Eva. {{spoiler|[[Offscreen Teleportation|He also masquerades as the village priest in the tiny town of Gate.]]}}
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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