apotheosis

/əˌpäTHēˈōsəs/
noun

1. the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
2. the elevation of someone to divine status; deification

He was no ordinary scholar, this man, but the apotheosis of scholars: the most famous personage in Zosma, save the queen and the hierarch, and the most popular, bar none.

– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer