different between omophorion vs rhason

English

From Byzantine Greek ????????? (?mophórion), from Ancient Greek ???? (ômos, “shoulder”) + ???? (phér?, “carry”).

omophorion (plural omophorions or omophoria)

A band of brocade originally of wool decorated with crosses and worn on the neck and around the shoulders as the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority in the Eastern Christian liturgical tradition, equivalent to the Western archepiscopal pallium.

alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, mitre, rhason, sakkos, sticharion, zone

Ancient Greek [Term?]

rhason (plural rhasons)

alb, cassock, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, mitre, omophorion, rhason, sakkos, sticharion, zone

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