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Webster 1913 Edition

Protopope

Pro′to-pope

,
Noun.
[
Proto-
+
pope
: cf. F.
protopope
, Russ.
protopop’
.]
(Gr. Ch.)
One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; – called also
protopapas
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Protopope

PRO'TOPOPE

,
Noun.
[Gr. first, and pope.] Chief pope or imperial confessor, an officer of the holy directing synod,the supreme spiritual court of the Greek church in Russia.

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