Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical hierarchy, or ecclesiocracy may refer to:
- Theocracy, a form of religious State government
- Hierocracy (medieval), papal temporal supremacy over the State
- Ecclesiastical polity, the government of a Christian denomination
- Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, jurisdiction by church leaders over other church leaders and over the laity
- Consistory (Protestantism)
- Consistory (Judaism)
- Papal consistory