and Orthodox in western Ukraine.

The Russian-style phelonion is used by the Russian Orthodox

Russian Orthodox Church

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, Ukrainian Autocephalous

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

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, Ukrainian Orthodox (Moscow Patriarchate)

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

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, Polish Orthodox

Polish Orthodox Church

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 churches, as well as the Orthodox Church in America

Orthodox Church in America

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. There is also a version used by some Ukrainian and Bulgarian Orthodox which is half-way between the Russian and Greek styles.

A bishop

Bishop

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 who wishes to serve a Divine Liturgy as a priest (i.e., without the special rites and prayers of the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy) will sometimes vest in a phelonion instead of his sakkos

Sakkos

The Sakkos is a vestment worn by Orthodox and Greek Catholic bishops instead of the priest's phelonion. The garment is a tunic with wide sleeves, and a distinctive pattern of trim. It reaches below the knees and is fastened up the sides with buttons or tied with ribbons...

, but with the small omophorion

Omophorion

In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic liturgical tradition, the omophor is the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority...

 around his neck. Originally, before the introduction of the sakkos, bishops wore a phelonion identical to that worn by priests, except that it was made of cloth that was either woven or embroidered with a pattern of multiple crosses, called a polystavrion ("many crosses").

In Oriental Orthodoxy

Oriental Orthodoxy

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, the phelonion is often only clasped at the neck, and is thus more open than the Byzantine-style, resembling a Western cope

Cope

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. Its various names are phanolion (Coptic

Coptic Christianity

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), paynā (Assyrian

Assyrian Church of the East

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), phayno (Syriac Orthodox

Syriac Orthodox Church

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), šurdzar (Armenian) and kāppā (Ethiopian

Tewahedo Church

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). These are worn by bishops as well as priests (the sakkos is not worn by priests).