Meanings
nounprotopope (plural protopopes)
plural protopopes
- ByzantineEastern OrthodoxyCatholicismA protopresbyter.
“But let us return to our first head,” as my esteemed colleague, who was burned alive some centuries ago, the protopope Avvakum, used to say.
1906 [1867], Constance Garnett, transl., Smoke, translation of Дым (Dym) by Ivan Turgenev
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Ancient Greekπρωτόπαπας
- Englishprotopope
From Ancient Greek πρωτόπαπας (prōtópapas); see proto- + pope.
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German Protopope
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