Of Episcopal Clobber
Hookers_Trick
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Where did the fashion for prelates wearing violet clerical shirts originate, and when? US Anglican bishops almost always take to the purple, English ones mostly purple with some opting for black (the more Anglo-Catholic ones perhaps leaning to black clerical shirts?).
I suspect this has something to do with purple episcopal cassocks, and wonder when that fashion originated? Archbishops Lang and Temple are both portrayed in purple cassocks in portraits, so at least as far back as the early C20...
I suspect this has something to do with purple episcopal cassocks, and wonder when that fashion originated? Archbishops Lang and Temple are both portrayed in purple cassocks in portraits, so at least as far back as the early C20...
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But mostly worn by ambitious lesser clerics, if rumour is to be believed.
This is probably true, though it seems counterintuitive: one might expect austere evangelicals preferring black. Apart from ++Justin Welby, most evangelical bishops, as well as MOTR ones, seem to go for purple. Perhaps it's because RC bishops normally wear black shirts that many anglo-catholic ones do.
Also, purple silk underpants are definitely a thing.
That particular bishop appears to be wearing his mitre incorrectly
Hahaha!
Has the bishop been bashed, one wonders?
Even as late as the 1950s, nosebleed-high Anglo=Catholics were following the arcane instructions found in Ritual Notes, an attempt to apply Roman Catholic rules to the 1662 Prayer Book.
One liturgist of the 1980s described the performance of accommodating a Bishop at High Mass as 'dressing and undressing the Bishop to music'.
AIUI, the dressing and undressing were done by a huge team of servers and acolytes, whilst the Bishop himself remained relatively passive.
To my austere senses, it all sounds totally ridiculous, though the Faithful were expected to find it seemly and edifying, I suppose.
And in some places they still wait as the bishop arrives in his clobber and then gets changed in a side chapel at the start and then at the end changes back. As far as I know Cardinal Burke is the only one who still wears that stuff. A Google search on his name will turn up pictures of him in gloves and slippers etc.
I have no idea what it has to do with the Carpenter of Nazareth.
https://www.catholicdoors.com/faq/1500/qu1516.htm
When an Orthodox Bishop celebrates with full ceremonial you will still see this done in the middle of the church. Outdoor garments are removed, leaving the Bishop just in his cassock, before putting on the full set of liturgical vestments. You can see a good example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Evq0pN5bqU&t=926s (from 8.00 minutes to 15.00 minutes) of the Patriarch of Georgia being vested last Sunday.
Burke isn’t the boss of anything much these days: he was largely sidelined by +++Francis quite a few years ago. I suppose it gives him more time to dress up in OTT rig & hang out with trads.
I thought they used the English Missal. Shows how much I know about the ultra-montane wing of Anglicanism. St Percy's recommendations will generally do me.
Many did indeed use the English Missal, which includes some texts from the BCP. I may have oversimplified...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Missal
The article also includes a list of churches still using the English Missal, though I'm not sure how up-to-date it is.
I dislike Cardinal Burke immensely, but it (the clobber) does look fabulous. Conclave would have been a very dull movie without it.
Just so long he doesn't make it all about him <cough, cough. >