The priest represented humankind before God.

On certain solemn feasts, such as Easter and Christmas the Office was interrupted, and the priests represented, in the presence of those assisting, the religious event being celebrated.

The priests represent power in Stone.

The Jesuit priest represents Austrian fears that the religious order, the Society of Jesus, was too close to Maria Theresa.

The high priests of Ammon-Ra and Osiris and Hapi represented the sacred arm.

A fat priest with a military helmet on his head represented the National Coalition Party.

The priests represent tradition and the field of power versus such autonomization.

In law and theology the priest in the parish represents the bishop to the people.

Thérèse tried to remember that the priest represented Christ and must be right.

In the course of the fourth millennium B.C., city-states developed in southern Mesopotamia that were dominated by temples whose priests represented the cities' patron deities.