Phelonion vs Sakkos - What's the difference?
phelonion | sakkos |
(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.