different between sakkos vs omophorion

English

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ?????? (sákkos). Doublet of sack.

Noun

sakkos (plural sakkoses or sakkoi)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 515:

     When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.

Coordinate terms

• alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, omophorion, rhason, sticharion, zone

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• Kosaks

English

Etymology

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

Noun

omophorion (plural omophorions or omophoria)

1. 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.

Coordinate terms

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

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