sceuophylax
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Noun[edit]
sceuophylax
- A sacristan or church treasurer.
- 2013, W. Treadgold, The Middle Byzantine Historians:
- Apparently after 806, under the patriarch Nicephorus, Ignatius became sceuophylax of St. Sophia, the second-ranking position in the patriarch's suite, with responsibility for a staff of secretaries and the church's many liturgical vessels, vestments, and books.