Eccl. Pl. synthroni. [eccl. L., a. eccl. Gr. σύνθρονος, f. σύν SYN- + θρόνος THRONE.] In the early church and the Greek Church, The joint throne of the bishop and his presbyters, usually a semicircular row of seats with the bishop’s throne in the middle, placed behind the altar.
1861. Neale, Notes Dalmatia, 117. The bishop’s seat, at the east end of the synthronus, remains with two arms.
