sticharion

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sticharion

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From Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion).

noun sticharions · sticharia

  1. The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in Latin-Rite Catholic Churches. a little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.

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noun clerical garb

Italianosticario
Русскийстиха́рь stixárʹ

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@misc{sticharion_2026,
  title = {sticharion},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sticharion},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}