As a Catholic, I am a Bible literalist. There is enough hierarchy preached in the Bible itself for me to discard it, quite apart from the historical evidence of hierarchical eucharistic Church as tthe only church there ever was.
The hierarchy in Scripture and as evidenced by Paul and his wanderings is a far, far, far, far, far
cry
with many tears . . .
from the horrid structure and practices in all large denominations, especially the RC edifice