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Protopapa is tripic of the Salento Peninsula, Gagliano del Capo, Alessano, Matino, Racale, Alliste, Martano and Casarano in Lecce, Taranto and Brindisi. Integrations provided by Stefano Ferrazzi The origin of this surname should be sought in the term Protopapa, which, within the Orthodox Church, indicates the first priest of the ecclesiastical hierarchy (a sort of archpriest or priest of the Byzantine rite): from the point of Etymological view, the term Protopapa is a cast of the Greek Protopapas, which, composed of the elements proto (first) and Papas (priest), literally means first priest. In this context, in any case, it should be pointed out that Protopapa is an Italian surname, but most probably of Albanian origin or, perhaps, Greek-Albanian (also in Greece, on the other hand, is the surname Protopapas): This hypothesis, in fact, agrees well with the Arbëreshë reality of southern Italy, if it is taken into account that the majority of the Italo-Albanian municipalities still retain the Orthodox faith and the Greek-Byzantine rite (the same discourse also applies to many families priest, priest, Loprete, etc, which in several cases They are just of Albanian origin).
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