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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 ...
They teach that the wearing of plain dress is scripturally commanded in 1 Timothy 2:9–10, 1 Peter 3:3–5, and 1 Corinthians 11:5–6, [5] in addition to being taught by the early Church Fathers. [5] Indeed, in the early Christian manual Paedagogus, the injunction for clothing to extend past the knees was enjoined. [6]
Bella Abzug tried to wear her signature brimmed hat after her election in 1971, but was forced to remove it by the House doorkeeper.The rule was unsuccessfully challenged by Frederica Wilson in 2010, known for her embrace of a variety of hats (including "sequined cowboy hats" [4]) as a fashion item, and the issue was raised of a dress code with adverse impact on women in government.
While the ritual removal of the vestments no longer exists, canon law still prohibits the wear of a clerical collar by laicized priests. [4] In the Catholic Church, a bishop, priest, or deacon may be dismissed from the clerical state as a penalty for certain grave offences, or by a papal decree granted for grave reasons.
The clerical clothing of Lutheran pastors and bishops often mirrors that of Catholic clergy: clerical shirt and a detachable clerical collar. In Scandinavia, but also in Germany, Lutheran bishops usually wear a pectoral cross. Danish clergy will wear a black cassock, as in Anglican and Catholic traditions, but with a distinctive ruff.
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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 ...