Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Gr. Ch., one of the episcopal vestments, consisting of a piece of brocade or some other stiff material shaped like a rhomb or lozenge, and worn on the right side at or below the knee, hanging by one of its angles from the zone or girdle.
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- noun Part of the
vestment worn bybishops and somepriests in theEastern Orthodox Church somewhat similar to amaniple
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Examples
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A peculiar episcopal ornament is the _epigonation_.
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He has the right to wear a pectoral cross, the epigonation in the celebration of Mass, and to sign the cross before his name after the manner of bishops.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In the Greek Rite the vestment that corresponds to the maniple is the epigonation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The epigonation does not belong to all the clergy but only to the bishop.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The new pontifical vestments were: the sakkos, still a patriarchal vestment; the epimanikien; the epigonation, in so far as this vestment had not already been introduced before the ninth century; the epigonation first had the form of a handkerchief and was called enchirion (hand-cloth, handkerchief), it was not named epigonation until the twelfth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Pontifical vestments are the liturgical head-covering, excepting in the Armenian Rite where the priest also wears such a covering for the head, the sakkos, the omophorion, the epigonation, and the epimanikia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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From the girdle the epigonation, a diamond-shaped piece of stuff, stiffened with cardboard, hangs down to the right knee.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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If he is a dignitary he wears the epigonation and (in Russia) the mitre also.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Byzantine mitre and epigonation, but not the omophorion or sakkos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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From the example sentences:
"The new pontifical vestments were: the sakkos, still a patriarchal vestment; the epimanikien; the epigonation, in so far as this vestment had not already been introduced before the ninth century; the epigonation first had the form of a handkerchief and was called enchirion (hand-cloth, handkerchief), it was not named epigonation until the twelfth century."
—The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
January 4, 2011