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sakkos - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sakkos'

English

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Noun

(sakkoi)
  • (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.