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Question 41.
Father your blessing! Evangelos
Answer to Question 41. Dear Evangelos, The Patriarch of Alexandrian is vested with two epitrakhelia – one beneath the sakkos as all bishops do and one over the sakkos. This is a prerogative that only the Patriarch of Alexandria has. I have asked if anyone knows why, but as yet have not received an answer. Two or three times a year, one of the African Metropolitans visits Cyprus and usually serves the Liturgy at our Church. When next in town I will make a point of asking him as I’m sure he would know. In the meantime if you discover why then please let me know.
Father Christopher, Your blessing!
I recently came across some information on the internet
regarding the vestments of the patriarch of Alexandria. The patriarch
wears two επιτραχήλια, one below and another above the σάκκος, by royal
decree (as he advised an emperor well on some issue). The επιτραχήλιον
above the sakkos is called the κριτάτο, in accordance with the
patriarch's title of «Κριτής της Οικουμένης». Evangelos
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