A liturgical service or ceremonial sequence, particularly in Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, involving processions or coordinated religious rites.
From Greek akolouthos (following or attendant) combined with the suffix -ia (denoting a practice or state). It originally described followers or attendants, then evolved to mean an organized following or sequence of ceremonies.
This Greek word literally means 'following'—but in Orthodox Christianity it became the word for a specific ordered sequence of prayers and movements that followers perform together, turning an abstract concept into a concrete ritual.
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