"omophorion" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: omophorions [plural], omophoria [plural]
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek ὠμοφόριον (ōmophórion), from Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”) + φέρω (phérō, “carry”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|gkm|ὠμοφόριον}} Byzantine Greek ὠμοφόριον (ōmophórion), {{uder|en|grc|ὦμος||shoulder}} Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”), {{m|grc|φέρω||carry}} φέρω (phérō, “carry”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|omophoria}} omophorion (plural omophorions or omophoria)
  1. A band of brocade originally of wool decorated with crosses and worn on the neck and around the shoulders as the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority in the Eastern Christian liturgical tradition, equivalent to the Western archepiscopal pallium. Wikipedia link: omophorion Categories (topical): Clerical vestments Coordinate_terms: alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, mitre, rhason, sakkos, sticharion, zone Translations (vestment): եմիփորոն (emipʻoron) (Armenian), omofori (Finnish), omoforio [masculine] (Italian), омофор (omofor) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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