protopope

noun

protopope

noun

Etymology From Ancient Greek πρωτόπαπας (prōtópapas); see proto- + pope.

1

Catholicism, Christianity Byzantine A protopresbyter.

Eastern Orthodoxy

“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:

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