Definition of "protopope" []

• One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest. (noun)

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• "From the report made on this subject, it is known that the Greek Rite obtained in sixteen towns of the diocese, and that there was a protopope at Balatone."
• "The clergy of the "Graffeo" have at their head a protopope who is under the jurisdiction of the archbishop."
• ""The protopope stands above the left choir when the pontiff celebrates, he gives to him [the pontiff] Holy Communion and in the same way the pontiff to the protopope and he has all first places [ta proteia panta] in the church" (Goar, 225)."