Superior (hierarchy)

In a hierarchy or tree structure of all kind, a superior is an individual or position at a higher level in the hierarchy than another a "subordinate" or "inferior", and thus closer to the apex. In business, superiors are people who are supervisors as living as in the military, superiors are people who are higher in the chain of command superior officer. Superiors are assumption sometimes supreme guidance over others under their command. When an profile is given, one must adopt that appearance in addition to obey it or punishment may be issued.

Catholic Church

A religious superior is the grown-up to whom a cleric is immediately responsible under canon law. For monks, it would be the abbot or the abbess for nuns; for friars, it would be the prior, or, for Franciscans, the guardian custos, for Minims, the corrector; for diocesan priests, it would be the local bishop. In religious orders with a hierarchy above the local community, there will also be superiors general and possibly provincial superiors above the local abbot, prior, or mother superior. The priest in charge a mission sui iuris is called an ecclesiastical superior.