koukoulion

The koukoulion is usually embroidered with crosses and the Instruments of the Passion.

The koukoulion replaces the klobuk which is worn by the monastics of lower ranks.

Several Orthodox Patriarchs wear a rounded headcovering called a koukoulion.

On the eighth day after Tonsure, there is a special service for the "Removal of the Koukoulion".

Normally, only the first koukoulion (now referred to as "the kontakion") and the first oikos are performed.

The koukoulion is also worn by the Patriarchs of some of the autocephalous Orthodox churches.

The koukoulion is also worn by the Patriarchs of several local churches, regardless of whether or not he has been tonsured to that degree.

In the context of monastic vows, it is called the koukoulion of kindliness, and the helmet of salvation.

In the Slavic tradition, the koukoulion will be in the form of a cloth hood, similar to that worn on the Western cowl.

The Patriarch of Moscow instead of the kamilavka wears a white koukoulion, a conical head covering with a monastic veil.

The Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia wears a white koukoulion with a "Zion", a stiffened point topped by a cross.

The Koukoulion (Slavonic: Kukol) is a traditional headdress worn by monks of the highest degree in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The form generally consists of 18 to 24 metrically identical stanzas called oikoi ("houses"), preceded, in a different meter, by a short prelude, called a koukoulion ("cowl").

The Patriarch of Moscow's epanokamelavkion is often richly embroidered with seraphim or other symbols on the lappets and is attached to a conical kamilavkion called a koukoulion.

For monastics of the Great Schema, the kalymafki takes a very distinctive shape, known as a koukoulion (cowl), and is embroidered with the Instruments of the Passion.

Among the Eastern Christians (Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholics) the monastic hood developed into the koukoulion worn by monks of the Great Schema, the highest degree of monasticism in the Eastern Church.

The paramandyas of the Megaloschemos is larger than that of the Stavrophore, and if he wears the klobuk, it is of a distinctive thimble shape, called a koukoulion, the veil of which is usually embroidered with crosses.