He is the preeminent, the first born from the dead and the ultimate Head of the church.
1Corinthians 12:12-13 – For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodywhether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or freeand have all been made to drink into[fn] one Spirit.