Synkellos

Synkellos (

latinized as syncellus, is an ecclesiastical office in the Eastern Rite churches. In the Byzantine Empire, the synkellos of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

was a position of major importance in the state, and often was regarded as the successor-designate to the reigning patriarch.

The term is Greek and means "one who lives in the same

Patriarch of Rome took precedence over that of Constantinople, if present, and the synkelloi of the other patriarchates followed.^[3]

The prestige of the title was such that from the 10th century, it began to be sought by, and awarded to, ambitious

Palaiologan period on, the synkellos of the Patriarch of Constantinople was designated as megas protosynkellos (μέγας πρωτοσύγκελλος, "grand protosynkellos).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Papadakis 1991, pp. 1993–1994.
^ ^a ^b Bury 1911, pp. 116–117.
^ Bury 1911, pp. 137, 146, 148.

Sources

Athenagoras, Metropolitan of Paramythia and Parga (1927). "Ὁ θεσμός τῶν Συγκέλλων ἐν τῷ Οικουμενικῷ Πατριαρχείῳ" [The institution of the Synkelloi in the Ecumenical Patriarchate]. Ἐπετηρίς Ἐταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν (in Greek). IV: 3–38.
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Papadakis, Aristeides (1991). "Synkellos". In
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[FOOTNOTEPapadakis19911993–1994-1] Papadakis 1991, pp. 1993–1994.

[FOOTNOTEBury1911116–117-2] Bury 1911, pp. 116–117.

[FOOTNOTEBury1911137,_146,_148-3] Bury 1911, pp. 137, 146, 148.

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