a dignitary or the office of the prelate (see Molina and the Diccionario of the Real Academia Española)
Alonso de Molina:
teoyotica tepacholiztli. prelazia o dignidad. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 100v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.