Protoiereus

Clerical position in the Eastern Orthodox Church From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A protoiereus (from Ancient Greek: πρωτοϊερεύς, "first priest", Modern Greek: πρωθιερέας), or protopriest in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is a priest usually coordinating the activity of other subordinate priests in a larger church. The title is roughly equivalent to that of protopope or archpriest.[1]

Protopriest Fyodor Dubyansky, confessor to Russian Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine the Great (portrait by Aleksey Antropov, 1761)

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