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In the 1960s, many clergy who lived in countries where Catholicism was the dominant religion also began to wear the clerical collar rather than the soutane or cassock. In the Reformed tradition , which stresses preaching as a central concern, pastors often don preaching tabs , which project from their clerical collar. [ 12 ]
A Lutheran (LCMS) pastor wearing preaching bands while administering confirmation to youth. The falling bands, worn 1540s to 1670s, could take three forms. Firstly, a small turned-down collar from a high neck-band, with an inverted v-or pyramidal-shaped spread under the chin and tied by band-strings sometimes visible but usually concealed.
For non-liturgical events, they wear ordinary clothing or a clerical shirt and collar. For more formal occasions they may wear a black Lutherrock, a form of frock coat. In the U.S., Lutheran clergy often a clerical color with a buttoned-down shirt (various colors) is worn with dress slacks or a skirt.
With the adjective kosmios (κόσμιος) meaning "modest", 1 Timothy 2:9–10 uses the Greek word catastola katastolé (καταστολῇ) for the apparel suitable for Christian females, and for this reason, women belonging to Conservative Anabaptist denominations often wear a cape dress with a headcovering; for example, ladies who are ...
ELCA pastors generally wear the stole hanging straight down while deacons wear them over one shoulder as in the Anglican and Roman traditions. In the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church ( Germany ), only pastors wear the stole, as there is only the one order of ordination, that of pastor, in ...
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Dorothy Sanders Wells took over her new job as Episcopal bishop on May 1 and has been visiting churches across the state to listen to their needs.
Presbyterian pastors in Brazil wearing modern gowns of various colors, some adding stoles. Doctors are entitled to wear arm bands. In the US and other countries where this forms a part of doctoral gowns, a minister who has earned a doctorate (e.g. DD, ThD, PhD) may wear three velvet bars on each sleeve, or simply wear his academic gown in the ...