Post pictures of your favorite Eastern Catholic Vestments

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Are most of the EC vestments the same? In other words, are, e.g., Maronite vestments and Ukrainian vestments essentially the same, or is there a difference between those that have Middle Eastern origins and Slavic origins?

The vestments shown above are truly impressive. What is the origin of them? I assume they’re Byzantine in origin, but how did those particular vestments come to be? From when do they date?

I realize this is probably a stupid question. But the Latin vestments look what you would expect vestments of Roman origin to look like. But the EC vestments do not look like what I would expect Greece to have come up with. Are the most remote origins oriental, perhaps?
 
Noah, I’ve got to know-what in the world is that picture on your signature?
 
I’ve seen four major families of Eastern Vestments.

The byzantine pattern Phelonian, with sticherion, cuffs, epitrachelions, and belt,
the Syriac with the cope-like cloak over a sticherion, belt, and epitrachelion
Conical, IIRC worn by the Etheopians mostly
and Roman, with the chasuble over alb and stole,

My favorites are seen http://www.ak-byz-cath.org/images/HolySaturdayBabyKath.JPG on St. Nicholas of Myra’s Website.

The simple austerity of the white set of phelonians is wonderful, especially with Rev. Archimandrite Wes’s crown’s ornateness.

Jay: who is the bishop in the photo you used?
 
Aramis said:
I’ve seen four major families of Eastern Vestments.

The byzantine pattern Phelonian, with sticherion, cuffs, epitrachelions, and belt,
the Syriac with the cope-like cloak over a sticherion, belt, and epitrachelion
Conical, IIRC worn by the Etheopians mostly
and Roman, with the chasuble over alb and stole,

My favorites are seen http://www.ak-byz-cath.org/images/HolySaturdayBabyKath.JPG on St. Nicholas of Myra’s Website.

The simple austerity of the white set of phelonians is wonderful, especially with Rev. Archimandrite Wes’s crown’s ornateness.
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I would be very interested in seeing representations of each (Except Roman. As a Latin, I know what they look like) Do you know of a website that shows each? I don’t know what any of those terms mean. (e.g., sticherion).

I am sure those vestments have been in use for centuries untold, but I still do wonder about them. It’s easy enough to see the Latin vestments, or versions thereof, in Roman art. Pre-Christian Greek art shows garb that’s fairly similar. Seemingly, both are pretty simple, much like Latin vestments today. Initially, Byzantium was Greek in culture, then Roman, then Greek again. My impression is that Roman styles were still pretty simple and plain when Constantine founded Constantinople, but that the eastern emperors (and perhaps the people) ultimately adopted much more ornate oriental styles of dress. That’s why I have wondered whether perhaps the Byzantine Greeks adopted some of that ornateness from the east. The fact that Syriac and Byzantine (from what you are telling me) vestments are similar, seems to point to that.

I think I understand that Latin bishops’ mitres are an adaptation of the headdress of Jewish temple priests, which is a “non-Roman” element in the Latin garb. But I don’t think there are many, if any, other significant exceptions.

It is my further impression that Eastern liturgies are much more ornate than the Latin, as is the Church decor. I understand there is an objective in that; that the Eastern Churches have a more mystical approach to Christianity than the Latin, and that the vestments, liturgies, decor, etc are designed to enhance that. That’s a neat thing. But the particular styles came from somewhere, and that’s what I’m curious about.

No doubt there is a scholarly work on this somewhere, but if anyone even knows a basic answer, I would appreciate hearing it.
 
Genesis315 said:
Besides the one’s already posted:

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Here is a Ukrainian Cardinal. He seems to be wearing an Eastern style galero.
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I think it would be more accurate to call it a “customized” rather than “Eastern style” galero…

In years past (and still some today) there has been a fair deal of “mixing & matching” of different styles…

Thanks for the cool photo though!
 
This is one of my favorite pictures/vestments:



Armenian Catholic bishops meeting in Jerusalem, circa 1880 (note the Roman pallium worn by the archbishop in the centre).
 
Anyone know who this fellow is? (if you give up you can take a look at the link to the photo!)
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Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East.

God bless,

Rony
 
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