epitrachelion

plural epitrachelions

1. Eastern OrthodoxyThe liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.

   The colorful tassels of the visible ends of the hierarchs' epitrachelions suggest a late-fourteenth century date.

   2014, Linda Safran, “Notes”, in The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 373, footnote 14

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   [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; republished New York, N.Y.: IBooks, 2000, page 232

   The epitrachelion is the Orthodox equivalent of the stole, but it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest, as is the case with the stole in Western churches.

   1987, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 26, Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopædia Britannica, →ISBN, page 878, column 2