epitrachelion
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
epitrachelion (plural epitrachelions)
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole#Noun|stole.
- 1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller, ISBN 978-0-88733-008-7; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7434-0718-2, page 232:
- [A] little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.
- 1984, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, San Francisco, Calif.: Underwood–Miller, ISBN 978-0-88733-008-7; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7434-0718-2, page 232:
- French: épitrachelion
- German: Epitrachelion
- Russian: епитрахи́ль
- Spanish: epitrachelion
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