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‖ syncellus Eccl.|sɪnˈsɛləs|
Pl. -i. Also 9 in anglicized form syncel.
[med.L. syncellus, sincellus, lit. one who shares a cell with another, a. Byzantine Gr. σύγκελλος, hybrid f. Gr. σύν syn-1 + cella cell n.]
In the Eastern Church, orig. an ecclesiastic who lived continually with a prelate; esp. the domestic chaplain of a metropolitan or patriarch; later, a dignitary who was associated with a prelate and succeeded to his office.
Applied by some to ecclesiastics in the Western Church.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Syncellus, a dignify'd Clergy⁓man in the Greek Church, who was next to the Patriarch; a Bishop's Suffragan. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., There were also Syncelli in the Western Church, particularly in France. 1844Kay Fleury's Eccl. Hist. III. 13 note, At Constantinople the Syncels possessed a very high rank; in Constantine's time they sat by the side of the Patriarch, taking precedence even of the Metropolitans. 1890T. W. Allies Peter's Rock 326 Anastasius, priest and syncellus of Sancta Sophia.
So synˈcellite [ad. med.L. syncellita: see -ite1].
1720J. Johnson Collect. Eccl. Laws, etc. Ch. Eng. anno 679. §7 Your Predecessor Gregory of blessed Memory, and..St. Augustin his Syncellite. |