Definition of "epitrachelion" []

• The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole. (noun)

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• "The bishop wears over his cassock the sticharion our alb; it is often of silk and coloured; then the epitrachelion, a stole of which the two ends are sewn together and hang straight down in front, with a loop through which the head is passed."
• "The sticharion and epitrachelion are held together by the zone (girdle),"
• "The priest wears the sticharion, epitrachelion, zone, and epimanikia."