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'''''Presbytera''''' is a Greek title of honor that is used to refer to a [[presbyter|priest]]'s wife.  It is derived from ''presbyteros''—the Greek word for ''priest'' (literally, "elder").  There does not currently seem to be any standard English equivalent, so most English-speaking Orthodox Christians will use the title most common in the old country churches from which their local family or parish finds its origin.
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'''''Presbytera''''' (also spelled as '''presvytera''') is a Greek title of honor that is used to refer to a [[presbyter|priest]]'s wife.  It is derived from ''presbyteros''—the Greek word for ''priest'' (literally, "elder").  There does not currently seem to be any standard English equivalent, so most English-speaking Orthodox Christians will use the title most common in the old country churches from which their local family or parish finds its origin.
  
 
==Other languages==
 
==Other languages==

Revision as of 02:45, January 17, 2006

Presbytera (also spelled as presvytera) is a Greek title of honor that is used to refer to a priest's wife. It is derived from presbyteros—the Greek word for priest (literally, "elder"). There does not currently seem to be any standard English equivalent, so most English-speaking Orthodox Christians will use the title most common in the old country churches from which their local family or parish finds its origin.

Other languages

Presbytera corresponds to the following equivalent titles:

  • Albanian: Prifteresha
  • Arabic: Khouria (from the word khoury, meaning "priest")
  • Carpatho-Russian: Pani (a shortened form of Panimatka)
  • Finnish: Ruustinna (from the word rovasti (protoiereos), in Karelia: Maatuska)
  • Old Icelandic: prestkona ("priest's woman")
  • Romanian: Preoteasa
  • Russian: Matushka (literally means "mama," i.e., the intimate form of "mother")
  • Serbian: Popadija
  • Ukrainian: Panimatka or Panimatushka ("little mama")

See Also

Books

  • Presbytera: The Life, Mission, and Service of the Priest's Wife, by Athanasia Papademetriou (ISBN 0972466142)

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