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Zacharias was not the High Priest. In the Christian Scripture, Zacharias is the father of John the Baptist. He is a priest in the temple, but not the High Priest.

See Luke 1:5, 3:2

There was also a King Zachariah in Israel. 2 Kings 15:8

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