hierarch vs personage

hierarch and personage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hierarch	Yes	No	No	No
personage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, personage is a hypernym of hierarch; that is, personage is a word with a broader meaning than hierarch:

hierarch: a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

Other hypernyms of hierarch include important person, influential person.

hierarch (noun)	personage (noun)
a senior clergyman and dignitary	another word for person; a person not meriting identification
a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy	a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events