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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as protopapas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Gr. Ch.) One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

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proto- +‎ pope

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