A band of brocade originally of wool decorated with crosses and is 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 Eastern Christian liturgical tradition, equivalent to the Western archepiscopal pallium.
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OMOPHORION refers to a liturgical vestment worn by Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic bishops, symbolizing the lost sheep carried on the Good Shepherd's shoulders.