Hierarchy is a “hot button”. Misunderstood and intentionally misused. The parables of vine and vineyard do more justice to God’s hierarchy than comparisons to secular hierarchies.
There has to be Hierarchy in any organization or it fails miserably.
There has to be someone who says “Thus saith The Lord”.
As it is in “The Church” (meaning all of Christianity) there are many different versions of “Thus Saith The Lord” and they all say different things.
While I do not believe that Christ built His Church on Peter I do believe he left Peter in charge and left the Apostles as the ruling body to oversee the various churches through out the world.
This Hierarchy means that one person answers to Christ for the condition of The Church. One person speaks for Christ on earth. Through The Holy Ghost God can speak to all of us but on matters affecting the whole or even part of the church there can only be one voice.