‖ protopapas
(prəʊtəʊˈpæpəs)
Also 7 -pappa.
[a. eccl. Gr. πρωτοπαπᾶς chief priest, f. πρωτο- proto- + παπᾶς priest (see pope n.2); cf. med.L. prōtopāpa, and see protopope.]
= protopope.
| 1682 Wheler Journ. Greece i. 32 The Protopappa, or Chief Priest. 1718 Ozell Tournefort's Voy. I. 274 The Greeks have full 200 Papas subject to a Protopapas. 1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. iv. 141 They inhabit a certain quarter where they have a church called the Catholicon, and a protopapas or high-priest. |