Mantle (vesture)

Portrait of archbishop Gavriil wearing an episcopal mandyas (Alexey Andropov, 1774, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

A mantle (Greek: μανδύας, mandyas; Church Slavonic: мантияcode: cu is deprecated , mantiya) is an ecclesiastical garment in the form of a very full cape which extends to the floor, joined at the neck, that is worn over the outer garments.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic churches, the mantle is a monastic garment worn by bishops, hegumens, archimandrites, and other monastics in processions and while attending various church services, such as Vespers or Matins; but not when dressed to celebrate the Divine Liturgy. Unlike the Western cope, the mantle is worn only by monastics. The klobuk is worn over the mantle.

Mantle (vesture) Media

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  Bishop Mercurius of Zaraysk wearing the episcopal mantle (St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Manhattan).

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  Painting of the monk Isidore of Pelusium, wearing a black mantle, from the Menologion of Basil II, 11th Century.

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  Icon of Saint Sergius of Radonezh wearing the black monastic mantle.

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  The mantle of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre contains a Jerusalem Cross, which represent the Five Holy Wounds of Christ.

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  Saint Methody of Pochaiv Lavra, wearing an Archimandrite's mandyas.

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  Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, Primate of the Church of Greece, wearing a red mantle with gold rivers. Icons of the four evangelists are present on the "tablets," at the clasps of the garment; the icon of Matthew the Apostle is clearly visible in this picture.

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  The funeral of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow. The patriarchal mantle is draped over his coffin. The patriarch's monograms in Church Slavonic: "P" and "A", for "Patriarch Alexy", are visible in front.