Presbytis

Presbytis

(presbytress). This word, in the various forms , presbytera, presbyterissa, is of frequent occurrence in ancient writers, and denotes either the wife of a presbyter or a deaconess in the Church. Sometimes it denotes the matron of a cloister, and an abbess. SEE DEACONESS.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature