Liturgical objects
Various liturgical objects are used in the course of the divine services.
List of liturgical objects
- Aer
- Altar
- Antimension
- Asterisk
- Blessing cross (also called a hand cross)
- Candles
- Cathedra (Bishop's throne)
- Censer
- Chalice
- Crozier
- Curtain behind the royal doors
- Deacon's doors (also called angelic doors)
- Dikirion and Trikirion
- Diskos (or paten)
- Eileton
- Endyton
- Exapteriga, meaning six-winged (also called fans, ripidia)
- Iconostasis
- Icons
- Orlets
- Prothesis
- Royal doors
- Spear (or lance)
- Spoon
- Tabernacle
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See also
External Links
- Welcome to the Orthodox Church: A Guided Tour by Deacon Daniel Swires
- Royal Doors and Sanctuary and The Holy Altar from the website of the Blessed Virgin of Vladimir Parish (ROCA), in Brisbane, Australia