Protothronus

Protothronus is, in the Greek Church, the name of the first bishop of an ecclesiastical province; he holds the first rank after the patriarch or after the metropolitan. At the death of either of these latter dignitaries, the protothronus assumes his jurisdiction until a successor is installed.

 
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