[annalex]

The Greek word for priest, Alex, is ἱερεύς (hierus), and you know that

That is for Hebrew priests, who are in your colorful language, "killed and taken over". Our priests are presbyters.

[Kolokotronis]

"That is for Hebrew priests, who are in your colorful language, "killed and taken over". Our priests are presbyters."

So far as I know, today and for the past 2000 years anyway, the word for priest in Greek (other than παπας) is ἱερεύς, with small spelling variations over the centuries.

Πρεσβευτερος, I think, means either an old man or a representative, though we do call the wife of a priest a πρεσβευτερα. Certainly in English, though, we call priests Presbyters.

[kosta50]

[re: Greek for priest is: hierus] That is for Hebrew priests, who are in your colorful language, "killed and taken over". Our priests are presbyters

Really? So, who are the yereys, the protoyereys, the hieromonks in the Orthodox Church? My "Jewish" clergy?