priestcraft

noun2

1. •
   The craft of performing the duties of a priest.

   • Whilst caring for a congregation is fundamental, it is a long way from being the only tool in the priestcraft toolbox. — 2016
2. •
   (disapproving) Priestly policy directed towards worldly ends.

   • In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin — 1681