Sentence:  The first step must be: "The removal of the important issue of the schools from the dark chambers of the state parliaments, especially from the Prussian bastion of Junkerdom and <WSD>priestdom</WSD>, into the bright light and the freer atmosphere of the Reichstag." [translation of "SPD Protokoll über die Verhandlunge des Parteitags 1906"] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Political rule or sweeping social control exercised by a class of priests; a ruling class of priests.<ref>"Oxford English Dictionary", 2nd ed., 1989.</ref>