Antistes
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thumb|The Antistes of Zürich from [[Zwingli to Nüscheler]] Antistes (from Latin ante "before" and sto "stand") was from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century the title of the head of a church in the Reformed Churches in Switzerland. It was the highest office in churches with synodal church governance.
The word was used first in 1525 as an unofficial title of honor for Huldrych Zwingli in Zürich, then in 1530 for Johannes Oecolampadius in Basel and in 1532 for Heinrich Bullinger in Zürich.