Hypertimos

Hypertimos

Hypertimos

Ecclesiastical title in Eastern Orthodox churches


Hypertimos (Greek: ὑπέρτιμος, "most honorable one") is an ecclesiastical title in the Eastern Orthodox churches following the Greek liturgical tradition, used to designate metropolitan bishops.

The title originated in the 11th-century Byzantine Empire, where the philosopher Michael Psellos held this title at the end of his illustrious career;[1] and in the chrysobull to the Venetians of 1082, the title was also conferred on the Patriarch of Grado.[2]


References

  1. Michael Jeffreys; Marc D. Lauxtermann, eds. (2017). The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities. Oxford University Press. p. 426. ISBN 9780198787228.
  2. Alexander Kazhdan; Ann Wharton-Epstein (1985). Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. University of California Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780520051294.

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