Armenia's foremost priest brings up Judges (9)
I believe the answer is:
appraises
'judges' is the definition.
(appraising is a kind of judging)
'armenia's foremost priest brings up' is the wordplay.
'armenia's foremost' becomes 'ap' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'priest' becomes 'p' (ecclesiastical abbreviation).
'brings up' becomes 'raises' (raising is a kind of bringing up).
'ap'+'p'+'raises'='APPRAISES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for appraises that I've seen before include "Assesses" , "Rates" .)