Definition of "protopapas" []

• A protopope. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Roughly the titles archpriest (archipresbyteros), protopriest (protoiereus, protopresbyteros), protopope (protopapas) may be taken as meaning; the same thing, though they have occasionally been distinguished."
• "Under the Venetian domination the schismatics were dependent on a protopapas who in turn depended on the Patriachate of Constantinople."