Sakkos

Origin

From Byzantine Greek σάκκος.

Full definition of sakkos

Noun

1. (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.