Another word for primacy

His primacy therefore was in itself a survival of an earlier age when king and priest were one.

During the reign of Anne he remained a member of the privy council, and was one of the commissioners appointed to arrange the terms of the union of England and Scotland; but, to his bitter disappointment, his claims to the primacy were twice passed over.

Her ancient prestige, her geographical position and the intellectual primacy of her most noble children rendered Italy the battleground of principles that set all Christendom in motion, and by the clash of which she found herself for ever afterwards divided.

This is the case with the power of the pope and his primacy, the exercise and manifestation of which have been continually developing.

His primacy was one of almost unprecedented activity.