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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 292 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SYNCELLUS , a hybrid word (Gr. vGv, See also:

Lat. See also:cella),' meaning literally " one who shares his See also:cell with another." In ecclesiastical usage it refers to the very See also:early See also:custom of a See also:priest or See also:deacon living continually with a See also:bishop, propter testimonium ecclesiasticum; thus See also:Leo III. speaks of See also:Augustine as having been the syncellus of See also:Gregory the See also:Great. The See also:term came into use in the Eastern See also:Church, where the syncelli were the chaplains of metropolitans and patriarchs. At See also:Constantinople they formed a See also:corporation, and the protosyncellus took See also:precedence of metropolitans and ranked next to the See also:patriarch, to whose See also:office he generally succeeded.

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