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- An encolpion (also engolpion, enkolpion; Gr****: ἐγκόλπιον, enkólpion, "on the chest"; plural: ἐγκόλπια, enkólpia) is a medallion with an icon in the center...
- Rite Catholic) a bishop will wear the mandyas, panagia (and perhaps an enkolpion), sakkos, omophorion and an Eastern-style mitre. Eastern bishops do not...
- and some bishops below primatial rank have the dignity of wearing an enkolpion (icon of Christ), a pectoral cross, and a panagia. A ruling Igumen (so...
- his side. The bishop will in this instance, as always, wear his Panagia enkolpion, and will stand on the eagle rug. Moreover, certain ceremonial practices...
- base of silver and gilded bronze. On the front there is a fragment of enkolpion depicting Christ crucified, while towards the Agnus Dei is surrounded...
- "Churches of the pre-Mongol and Mongol period in Volyn and Galicia" (1969), "Enkolpion Crosses" (1972), "Churches of the XV–XVIII centuries in Western Ukraine...
- 1995 (2nd. edition 1996). Die altrussischen Inschriften des Hildesheimer Enkolpions. Göttingen 1999. Eine serbisch-russische Sprachbegegnung vom Anfang des...