Protos (monastic office)

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Protos (Greek Πρώτος, translation "First") is a monastic office at the eastern orthodox monastic state of Mount Athos. The Protos is a monk, elected among the members of the Iera Epistasia ("Holy Administration", the clerical governing body of Athos) by the athonite monasteries to be the head of the athonite monastic community. The seat of the Protos is Karyes.

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