Official titles and Rank or Status

[Refplace]

So I want to organize some titles and would like suggestions.

Corporate
Supervisor
Manager
Director
Vice President
CEO/President

Feudal?
Baron
Duke
King

Government
Captain
Commisioner
Mayor
Governer

Military
Lieutenant
Captain
Major
Colonel
General

Police
Detective
Inspector?
Captain
Commisioner

ReligiousPriest
Bishop
Cardinal
Pope

[Prince Charon]

I've been trying to work out some religious rank titles, so perhaps this will help both of us:

Religious Rank of Yrth Church Officials (Banestorm p184)

Rank Title

6 Archbishop, grand master of a great order
5 Bishop, grand master of a lesser order
4 Head of a powerful abbey or minor order
3 Head of a minor abbey
2 Senior priests
1 Common priests
0 Extremely minor local priests


Religious Rank (Catholic, preliminary)

Rank Title

8 The Pope
7 Cardinal, especially respected archbishop?
6 Archbishop, grand master of a great order
5 Bishop, grand master of a lesser order
4 Head of a powerful abbey or minor order
3 Head of a minor abbey
2 Senior priests, priors/prioresses
1 Common priests, respected monks, nuns, and friars
0 Extremely minor local priests; monks, nuns, and friars

Where do Canons, deacons, and other odd titles go?


Religious Rank (Anglican, preliminary)

Rank Title

8 Supreme Govenor
7 Primate
6 Archbishop, grand master of a great order
5 Bishop, grand master of a lesser order
4 Head of a powerful abbey or minor order
3 Head of a minor abbey
2 Senior priests
1 Common priests
0 Extremely minor local priests

Where do Canons, deacons, and other odd titles go?

Does the CoE even *have* abbeys anymore?

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Refplace

So I want to organize some titles and would like suggestions.

Examples, not exhaustive.

Feudal (English)

The grades during all but the last century of the mediaeval were:

• Landed knight (sire)
• Baron (munsire)
• Earl
• King

Aristocratic (English)

• Baronet
• Baron
• Viscount
• Earl
• Marquess
• Duke
• King

French Feudal

• Gentilhomme
• Chevalier
• Baron/seigneur/captal etc.
• Vicomte
• Comte
• Marquis
• Duc
• Roi

German, late pseudo-feudal

• Ritter
• Freiherr
• Burggraf
• Landgraf
• Markgraf
• Herzog
• Fürst (even later, König)
• Kaiser

That's a drastic and probably erroneous simplification of a complicated system consisting mostly of special cases.

Military (Renaissance or Enlightenment)

• Sergeant-Major
• Lieutenant
• Captain
• Major (originally sergeant-major of the column)
• Lieutenant-colonel (originally lieutenant of the column)
• Colonel (originally captain of the column)
• [Sergeant] Major-general
• Lieutenant-general
• [Captain-] General

That is, you have a captain, his lieutenant, and a sergeant-major commanding at the company, column, and general (army) level.

Police

• Constable (several grades)
• Sergeant (often several grades)
• Inspector
• Chief Inspector
• Superintendant
• Chief Superintendant
• Assistant Chief Constable, Assistant Commissioner, or Commander
• Deputy chief Constable, or Deputy Commissioner
• Commissioner of Police, or Chief Constable

Religious (Catholic, mostly)

• Rector, or canon
• Rural dean, archpriest, archdeacon, or dean
• Suffragan Bishop
• Diocesan Bishop
• Metropolitan bishop
• Primate
• Patriarch
• Pope

Government (Westminster System)

• Supervisor
• Branch Head
• Assistant Secretary
• First Assistant Secretary
• Secretary
• Minister
• Prime Minister

Is that the sort of thing you wanted?

[Agemegos]

Naval

• Able seaman
• Leading seaman
• Petty officer
• Chief petty officer
• Sublieutenant / Lt(j.g.)
• Lieutenant
• Lieutenant-commander
• Commander
• Captain
• Rear Admiral
• Vice-admiral
• Admiral
• Admiral of the Fleet

[Agemegos]

Military (Commonwealth)

• Team leader — lance-corporal
• Section leader — corporal
• Platoon (Troop) commander — lieutenant
• Company (Squadron) commander — major or maybe captain
• Battalion (Regiment, Battery) commanding officer — lieutenant-colonel
• Brigade C.O. — brigadier or maybe colonel
• General officer commanding Division — major general
• G.O.C Corps — lieutenant-general
• General
• Field Marshal

[Refplace]

Thanks guys so far its great.
I would not give Nuns rank though, except a head nun.