Sticharion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sticharion is a noun meaning The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in Latin-Rite Catholic Churches.
Meaning
The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in Latin-Rite Catholic Churches.
Example Sentences
The sticharion, which is held by the zone, or girdle, corresponds to the alb.
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.
Word Forms
- sticharions
- sticharia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include epimanikion, clerical, albe, stola, pallium, stock.
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