Koukoulion

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia wearing the koukolion

The koukoulion (Greek: κουκούλιον; Slavonic: kukol) is a traditional headdress worn by monks and certain patriarchs in Eastern Christianity.[1]

  1. ^ Robinson, Nalbro' Frazier (1916). Monasticism in the Orthodox Churches: Being an Introduction to the Study of Modern Hellenic and Slavonic Monachism and the Orthodox Profession Rites, Together with a Greek Dissertation on the Monastic Habit, Done in English, with Notes. Cope and Fenwick. p. 39.