sticharia
sticharia is the plural of sticharion.
Meaning of sticharion
Noun
sticharion (plural sticharions or sticharia)
- 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.1972, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, Agberg Ltd., published September 2000, page 232
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- What is sticharia the plural of?
- Sticharia is the plural of sticharion.
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