omophorion

At any service other than the Divine Liturgy he will usually wear the small omophorion.

Clergy and ecclesiastical institutions subject to a bishop's authority are often said to be "under his omophorion".

The distinctive vestment of a bishop is the omophorion.

Over the saccos, the bishop wears a wide shoulder covering called the omophorion.

Whenever he presides at any divine service, the bishop will be vested in the omophorion.

The only change in the omophorion in the East has been the augmentation of its width, and the material from which it is made.

In such cases, the omophorion is often sewn into shape and can be simply draped onto the shoulders rather than wrapped on by assistants.

In Oriental Orthodoxy, the omophorion takes a number of different forms:

Corresponds to the Orthodox omophorion (see below).

It is under the omophorion of Metropolitan Demetrius of America.

It is not to be confused with the pallium, in the Catholic Church, which is related to the omophorion.

At the Divine Liturgy, the rubrics call for the bishop to put on and take off the omophorion numerous times.

He is depicted as an Orthodox bishop, wearing the omophorion and holding a Gospel Book.

The various configurations of the stole (including the pallium or the omophorion) grew out of this usage.

Buttons or loops are sewn on the back, by which the bishop's omophorion (either great or small) may be attached.

It is called a ballin, and it is almost double the length of the Byzantine omophorion.

The Armenian Apostolic emip'oron is similar to the Byzantine great omophorion.

All three communities are under the omophorion of the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in America.

The omophorion probably developed from the civil omophorion, a shoulder garment or shawl in general use.

Great omophorion (front)

If he is serving the Divine Liturgy he will wear both the great and the small omophorion at different times over his liturgical vestments.

In the early church, the omophorion was a broad band of white wool ornamented with crosses and draped loosely over the neck, shoulders, and breast.

Instead of the sakkos he wears a priestly phelonion, with only the small omophorion on his shoulders and the epigonation at his side.

The three forms of stole (Orarion, Epitrachelion, and Omophorion) are marks of rank.

When the bishop is fully vested he wears the epitrachelion over the sticharion and under the zone, the sakkos and the omophorion.