A protopope, or protopresbyter, is a priest of higher rank in the Eastern Orthodox and the Byzantine Catholic Churches, generally corresponding to Western...

– 14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch...

priests in a larger church. The title is roughly equivalent to that of protopope or archpriest. Даль В. И. Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка...

Байкал, Ozero Baikal). This usage is attested already in the Life of Protopope Avvakum (1621–1682), and on the late-17th-century maps by Semyon Remezov...

included Fyodor Rtishchev, Abbot Ivan Neronov of the Kazan Cathedral, Protopope Avvakum, and others. In 1649, Nikon became metropolitan of Great Novgorod...

first female priest to hold this office in Haccombe. Archpriest, also protopope (Greek: πρωτοπαπᾶς, protopapas) or protopresbyter (Greek: πρωτοπρεσβύτερος...

Cathedral and Monastery, which became a seat of a local church hierarch, the Protopope. Administrative reforms led to Kharkiv being governed from 1708 from Kyiv...

century under the Russian Empire as a dacha of Bakhmut by Protopope Ivan Lukyanov. The protopope was known for his spiritual leadership, and many Cossacks...

the title of archpriest, protopresbyter (also called "protopriest", or "protopope"), hieromonk (a monk who has been ordained to the priesthood) archimandrite...

persecuted by the church and the state. The chief opposition figure, the protopope Avvakum, was burned at the stake. The split afterwards became permanent...