Extra-liturgical clothing of clergy in the practice of the Ukrainian Church

Abstract

Clothing in the human world, along with its direct practical function, was also a certain identifier of the state and status of the person. Everyone, seeing someone, could identify who was in front of him: poor or wealthy, peasant or city dweller, ordinary or noble. A specially dressed person, in accordance with his origin and social status, was distinguished by his clothes. One of the signs of belonging to the spiritual state was and remains the special clothing of the priest. If the liturgical is studied, identified and analyzed in some detail, then ordinary, everyday clothes remains little studied. In particular, when it comes to the Ukrainian church tradition.