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  2. Crozier - Wikipedia

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    A crozier on the coat of arms of Basel, Switzerland which was ruled by Prince-Bishops during the Middle Ages. A crozier or crosier (also known as a paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) [1] is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox ...

  3. Vimpa - Wikipedia

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    A vimpa (plural: vimpae) is a veil or shawl worn over the shoulders of servers who carry the mitre and crosier during liturgical functions when they are not being used by the bishop, in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other western churches. [1] [2]

  4. Mitre - Wikipedia

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    The mitre (Commonwealth English) or miter (American English; see spelling differences; both pronounced / ˈ m aɪ t ər / MY-tər; Greek: μίτρα, romanized: mítra, lit. 'headband' or 'turban') is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops and certain abbots in traditional Christianity.

  5. Bishop's Mitre - Wikipedia

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    Bishop's Mitre could refer to: several types of headdress, notably : a traditional, ceremonial head-dress of bishops and some other clergy in Christian Churches. See mitre. a variety of types of headdress worn by European Grenadiers from the 17th Century. Bishop's Mitre, a mountain in Labrador, Canada; the Bishop's Mitre, the shieldbug Aelia ...

  6. Bishops in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    An Eastern Catholic bishop of the Syro-Malabar Church holding the Mar Thoma Cross which symbolizes the heritage and identity of the Syrian Church of Saint Thomas Christians of India Johann Otto von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg in Bavaria, 1591–1598, carrying a crosier and wearing a mitre and pluviale.

  7. Ecclesiastical heraldry - Wikipedia

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    A form of mitre with coronet is proper to the Bishop of Durham because of his rôle as Prince-Bishop of the Palatinate of Durham. [50] For similar reasons the Bishop of Durham and some other bishops display a sword behind the shield, pointed downward to signify a former civil jurisdiction. [51] [52]

  8. Origins of ecclesiastical vestments - Wikipedia

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    In the 9th century appeared the Pontifical gloves; in the 10th, the mitre; in the 11th, the use of liturgical shoes and stockings was reserved for cardinals and bishops. By the 12th century, mitre and gloves were worn by all bishops, and in many cases they had assumed a new ornament, the rationale, a merely honorific decoration (supposed to ...

  9. Chorbishop - Wikipedia

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    Like a bishop, a chorbishop is ordained, and entitled to all vestments proper to a bishop, including the mitre (hat) and crozier (staff). [6] The Synod of Mt. Lebanon (1736) limited only the jurisdiction of a chorbishop, permitting him to ordain to the minor orders ( cantor , reader and the subdiaconate ), but not the major orders of diaconate ...