Protos (monastic office)

The protos (Greek: πρώτος, "first, premier") is a monastic office at the Eastern Orthodox monastic community of Mount Athos in Greece.

Authority[]

The office is assumed by a monk who is elected among the members of the Iera Epistasia ("Holy Administration") which functions as the executive committee of the Iera Koinotita ("Holy Community") — the governing body of the monastic community of Mount Athos, composed of representatives from each of the Athonite monasteries — to be the head of the Athonite monastic community.

History[]

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List of protoi[]

• ,^[1] after 1093
• ^[2]
• John Tarchaneiotes, ca. 1107^[3]
• ,^[4] fl. 1253
• Niphon Kausokalybites, 1345-1347^[5]
• , 1348 (Serbian)^[5]
• Dorotheus of Hilandar, 1356-1366 (Serbian)^[5]

References[]

Sources[]

• Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994), The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5
• Michael Angold (2000), Church and society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261

External links[]

• Protaton of Mount Athos

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