Difference between revisions of "Proistamenos"
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Revision as of 20:24, March 17, 2007
The word rector (from Latin, regere, "to rule") is used as the title of the priest or bishop who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy. It essentially translates the traditional Greek proistamenos, which means "the one who presides."
