Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Gr. Ch., a vestment corresponding to the alb of the Western Church.
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- noun The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the
alb in catholic churches.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The priest wears the sticharion, epitrachelion, zone, and epimanikia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The bishop wears over his cassock the sticharion our alb; it is often of silk and coloured; then the epitrachelion, a stole of which the two ends are sewn together and hang straight down in front, with a loop through which the head is passed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The deacon wears the sticharion and epimanikia, but no girdle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The sticharion and epitrachelion are held together by the zone (girdle),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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When people go even as far as calling their books and vestments after ours, saying Missal when they mean Euchologion, alb when they mean sticharion, the confusion becomes hopeless.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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