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Clergy and ranks

Reader

A church servant set apart to read the psalms, hours and Epistle at services, vested in a sticharion.

Clergy and ranks

Rector

The senior priest of a church, answerable to the bishop; in a monastery the bishop is often rector while a vicegerent governs day to day.

Vestments

Riassa (outer cassock)

The wide outer garment with long flaring sleeves worn over the podriasnik.

Ranks of sanctity

Right-Believing

The rank of princes and rulers glorified for holding the right faith and governing by it — literally 'rightly believing'.

Ranks of sanctity

Righteous

A sainted layperson — one who lived an ordinary life in the world, in a family and at work, and lived it holily.

Church utensils

Ripidion

A metal disc bearing a six-winged seraph on a long handle, held over the holy gifts at a hierarchical service.

The church building

Royal Doors

The double doors in the centre of the iconostasis leading to the holy table; used only by clergy at set moments of the service.