High Priest or First Prophet (ancient Egyptian: ḥm-nṯr-tpỉ) was an ancient Egyptian religious occupational title held by the highest-ranking priest in a particular priesthood.
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Since the early New Kingdom, the High Priest of Amun at Thebes was the most powerful High Priest. Their absolute height of power was the 21st Dynasty, when the High Priest of Amun ruled over Upper Egypt while the pharaoh ruled over Lower Egypt. The God's Wife of Amun was effectively and uniquely a High Priestress in the Amun cult.
List of notable High Priest offices[]
- High Priest of Amun
- High Priest of Hathor
- High Priest of Min
- High Priest of Mut
- High Priest of Onuris
- High Priest of Osiris
- High Priest of Ptah
- High Priest of Ra
- High Priest of Set