hypertimos

{{Short description|Ecclesiastical title in Eastern Orthodox churches}}

Hypertimos ({{langx|el|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;{{cite book | title = The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities |editor1= Michael Jeffreys |editor2=Marc D. Lauxtermann | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2017 | isbn = 9780198787228 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Gg2DDQAAQBAJ | page = 426 }} and in the chrysobull to the Venetians of 1082, the title was also conferred on the Patriarch of Grado.{{cite book |author1=Alexander Kazhdan |author2=Ann Wharton-Epstein | title = Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780520051294 | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qlU37xo9LeUC | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qlU37xo9LeUC/page/n232 179]}}

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