Archpriest
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The ecclesiastical title of archpriest, traditionally archpresbyter or protopresbyter, belongs to certain priests with supervisory duties over one or several parishes in the Eastern Orthodox Church. T
A Russian archpriest in his street clothes – Feodor Dubyansky, confessor to the Empress Elizabeth and Catherine II. Portrait by Alexei Antropov, 1761.
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Archdeacon
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An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some othe
Archpriest
…archpriest is conferred the title via liturgical ceremony and wears a specific vestment and typically a pectoral cross. In early Christianity, the archdeacon (Greek: αρχιδιάκονος/archidiákonos) was the head of the deacons of an eparchy/diocese, as is still the case in the Eastern Orthodox Church, while the…
Protodeacon Vladimir Nazarkin (left) and archdeacon Andrei Mazur of the Russian Orthodox Church during procession.
Archdeacon. Painting by Ilya Repin (1877)