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PROTHESIS (Gr. 7rpbOeotc, a setting forth, from 7rportOEvau, to set forward or before)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 476 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PROTHESIS (Gr. 7rpbOeotc, a setting forth, from 7rportOEvau, to set forward or before) , in the
liturgy
  of the Orthodox Eastern Church, the name given to the act of " setting forth " the oblation, i.e. the arranging of the bread on the paten, the signing of the
cross
  (a-clipayQ'e1v) on the bread with the sacred spear, the mixing of the chalice, and the veiling of the paten and 1 chalice (see F. E. Brightman, Liturgies Eastern and Western, 1896). The
term
  is also used, architecturally, for the place in which this ceremony takes place, a chamber on the north side of the central
apse
  in a Greek church, with a small table. During the reign of
Justin
  II. (565-574) this chamber was located in an
apse
 , and another apse was added on the
south
  side for the
diaconicon
  (q.v.), so that from his time the Greek church was triapsal. In the churches in central Syria the ritual was apparently not the same, as both prothesis and diaconica are generally rectangular, and the former, according to De Vogue, constituted a chamber for the deposit of offerings by the faithful. Consequently it is sometimes placed on the
south
  side, if when so placed it was more accessible to the pilgrims. There is always a much wider doorway to the prothesis than to the
diaconicon
 , and there are cases where a side doorway from the
Typhlomolge rathbuni.
central apse leads direct to the diaconicon, but never to the prothesis.


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