Bible Encyclopedias
Proto
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
(first). This adjective is prefixed to the name of several officers in the Greek Church, denoting that he who holds it is the chief of his class such as prothonotary, protoppaas, protopsaltes, protosyncellus.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Proto'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/p/proto.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.