There is no official title of Gadol haDor, or anything else that gives someone overall authority. Even when we had a Sanhedrin, the Nasi still had one vote.
In Catholicism, they have a concept of one person who is considered infallible (the Pope). We don’t believe in people being infallible, only Hashem doesn’t make mistakes.
This idea of Gadol haDor is a relatively recent one, which didn’t come into use until the 1900s. It doesn’t carry any extra weight or power.
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