International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR)
  Year: 2023 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 8 | Page No.: 27-29
Dress of Priests from Patriarch to Deacon in Ethiopian Orthodox Church Download PDF
Negusu Goda (Queen College V/ dean) and Derese Simegnew Alehegn (ph.D scholar at Hawassa University)

Abstract:
According to Article 65 of the Constitution of the Church, priests are allowed to have their own dress according to their profession and title of priesthood. For example, Aiken, Hamelet and Phrygia are the vestments of bishops. A high round oval aschema decorated with holy vows is allowed only for the Holy Patriarch, but some bishops can be seen doing this transgressively. Hamlet: Bishops wear a red and black collar. Farijia: It is a loose robe with wide sleeves that bishops wear over their skirts. Although the existing custom and the constitution of the church stipulate that the clothes we mentioned above are only for bishops, we have not seen any monk wearing it without fear and shame and saying hag. On the contrary, it is clear that the monks' clothing, as it is written "love to wear clothes" (Mar Isaac), which does not require a lot of money, and which can be prepared by the monks themselves, and their colors were also known. The constitution of the church says that the clothes of monks should only be yellow or black. But now, since the cities are full of monks, it has become common for a monk to wear a large number of expensive and ornate clothes.