The antimins (from the Greek Ἀντιμήνσιον, Antimension: "instead of the table"), is one of the most important furnishings of the altar in many Eastern...

by a bishop of the same rite was required. In the Byzantine Rite, the antimension, blessed and signed by the bishop, serves a similar function. In contrast...

and the sacred vessels. In the orthodox churches it is covered by the antimension, which also contains the relics of saints. Since the 2nd century the...

Liturgy must be served on an antimension even if the altar has been consecrated and contains relics. When not in use, the antimension is left in place in the...

LaBoiteaux Drake (1962), Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) Antimension Epitaphios (liturgical) Life of Jesus in the New Testament Seven Sorrows...

called the antimension signed by the bishop, which is the permission to the community to gather and to act as the Church. Without the antimension, the priest...

purple) Look up parament in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Antependium Antimension Altar candle Chancel flowers  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...

saints (traditionally, always those of a martyr) are also sewn into the antimension which is given to a priest by his bishop as a means of bestowing faculties...

Divine Liturgy only with the blessing of a bishop. In Byzantine usage, an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose...

Table, and the priest takes the diskos from him and places it on the Antimension. During the Anaphora, only the Lamb is consecrated.[citation needed]...

Christ at the Divine Liturgy. The Chrism used at Chrismation and the Antimension placed on the Holy Table are also said to be consecrated. Eastern Christians...

and is presented to the priest by the bishop and (together with the antimension) and is the symbol of the priest's permission from the bishop to perform...

were attributed to him; Deesis of Saint Simeon and Saint Sava (1712); Antimension of Christ with the Apostles (1724); and two-sided woodcut representing...

the Monarch has jurisdiction over the Abbey. Thabilitho Altar Stone Antimension Habtamu Teshome (16 January 2023). "Liturgical Worship, Part Three: Unique...

that the visiting priest is a person of good character. In the East an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose...

is deconsecrated as a holy space. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the antimension on the altar serves a similar function. It is a cloth icon of Christ's...

Christ at the Divine Liturgy. The Chrism used at Chrismation and the Antimension placed on the Holy Table are also said to be consecrated. Church buildings...

piece of cloth called the eiliton. Folded within the eiliton is the antimension, which is a silken cloth imprinted with a depiction of the burial of...

Byzantine art, with special types of cloth icon, the Epitaphios and the Antimension; Western equivalents in painting are called the Anointing of Christ....

thabilitho symbolizes the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. Tabot Antimension Altar stone Corporal (liturgy) Givergis Paniker Karichal, The Holy Qurbono...

this chrism which has received the laying on of hands, together with an antimension is the manner in which a bishop bestows faculties upon a priest under...

include: Altar cloth (sometimes called the "Fair Linen") Antependium Antimension Baptismal cloth Burse Cere cloth Chalice veil Corporal Credence cloth...

Place also refers to the central portion of the Holy Table, where the antimension and Gospel Book are normally kept. The only other objects that are permitted...

church. The relics which will be placed in the Holy Table (altar) and the antimension are to be prepared and guarded on the previous day in some neighboring...

ecclesiastical accessories, such as silver banners, gospels (1776, 1860), an antimension (1840), two chalices (1862, 1890), menaia printed in Venice in 1680 and...

to a church. In 2006, Bishop John Pazak moved the tabernacle and the antimension from the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Markham to the Church of...

priest lifts the chalice and makes the Sign of the Cross with it over the antimension as he says quietly, "Blessed is our God...". He then turns towards the...

non-clergy, except for sacristans to whom special permission is given. Antimension Thabilitho Chapel of the Corporal at Orvieto Cathedral Citations  One...

Divine Liturgy (chancel with an altar table, a prothesis table, and an antimension). Łopatinski, N. (1 July 1892). "Posieszczenije Tieriespolskogo prichoda...

The deacon kisses the asterisk, folds it, and lays it aside on the Antimension, as the priest begins the Prayer of the Anaphora. After the Communion...