''Protothronos'' (, "first-throned") is a Greek term used in the
Eastern Orthodox Church
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to denote precedence among bishops (or rather their sees). Thus it can denote the first-ranked
metropolitan bishop within a
patriarchate, or the first among the
suffragan bishops of a metropolitan see. Such bishoprics were in turn often raised to separate archbishoprics or metropolises.
See also
*
Primate (bishop), Catholic counterpart
References
Sources
* {{cite book , editor-last=Kazhdan , editor-first=Alexander , editor-link=Alexander Kazhdan , title=
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium , year=1991 , location=New York and Oxford , publisher=Oxford University Press , isbn=978-0-19-504652-6 , ref={{harvid, ODB
Greek words and phrases
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