(), one of the names by which the early Church distinguished the teachers or preachers from the brethren (1Ti 5:17). Justin Martyr uses the term as synonymous with , when he speaks of the as the person whose duty it is to consecrate the elements in the administration of the Lord’s Supper (Apolog. 2, 67), a duty subsequently performed only by the bishop except in his absence. (Pepin’s decree, A.D. 755, is as follows: Nullus presbyter praesumat missas celebrare sine jussione episcopi in cujus parochia est. The Council of Arles laid similar restrictions upon deacons [canon 15].) The title Proestos was translated into Latin by Praepositus, whence the English word Provost (q.v.). See Coleman, Ancient Christianity Exemplified, p. 102 et al.; Siegel, Christ. Alterthiimer (see Index in vol. iv); Riddle, Christ. Antiquities, p. 211.<\/p>\n
Proestos (), one of the names by which the early Church distinguished the teachers or preachers from the brethren (1Ti 5:17). Justin Martyr uses the term as synonymous with , when he speaks of the as the person whose duty it is to consecrate the elements in the administration of the Lord’s Supper (Apolog. 2, … Continue reading “Proestos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}