A band of brocade originally of wool decorated with crosses and worn on the neck and around the shoulders as the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority in the EasternChristian liturgical tradition, equivalent to the Westernarchepiscopalpallium.
Origin
From Byzantine Greek ὠμοφόριον, from Ancient Greek ὦμος + φέρω.
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