Sakkos

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek σάκκος (sákkos). Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and saco.

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