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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.
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] The crosier was displayed as a symbol of pastoral jurisdiction by bishops, abbots, abbesses, and cardinals even if they were not bishops. The crosier of a bishop is turned outward ...
The pectorals worn by Anglican bishops do not normally have the corpus (body of Jesus) depicted on them. They may be decorated with amethyst [3] or a bishop's mitre, and are usually suspended from a simple gold chain. Anglo-Catholic bishops may follow more of the Roman Catholic model. Soo Yee Po, Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Western Kowloon
bishop, mitre on head, without his crosier, right hand lifted in a gesture of benediction and left folded upon his breast. [citation needed] Gebhard of Constance: bishop giving his staff to a lame man [6] Geltrude Comensoli: holding a Monstrance, Genuflecting or Kneeling to the Blessed Sacrament [citation needed] Geminianus
The tiara is still used as a symbol of the papacy. It features on the coat of arms of the Holy See and of the Vatican City State , though not on the pope's personal coat of arms since Pope Benedict XVI replaced the tiara on his official coat of arms with a traditional bishop's mitre.
Arms of Innocent VIII (Giovanni Battista Cybo, 1484–1492) as shown in the contemporary Wernigerode Armorial.The coat of arms of the House of Cybo is here shown with the papal tiara and two keys argent in one of the earliest examples of these external ornaments of a papal coat of arms (Pope Nicholas V in 1447 was the first to adopt two silver keys as the charges of his adopted coat of arms).
In Pope Benedict's arms, the tiara is replaced with a silver mitre with three gold stripes. [4] These stripes recall the three crowns of the tiara, which came to represent the three powers of the Bishop of Rome: Orders, Jurisdiction and Magisterium. The stripes preserve that meaning and are joined at the centre to show their unity in the same ...
Pontifical vestments, also referred to as episcopal vestments or pontificals, are the liturgical vestments worn by bishops (and by concession some other prelates) in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, in addition to the usual priestly vestments for the celebration of the Holy Mass, other sacraments, sacramentals, and canonical hours.