NationStates Jolt Archive


Christian leader garments

Sel Appa
27-06-2005, 06:43
I saw a guy at Shoprite who was dressed completely in black and had a large cross necklace. What is he? I guessed an EO bishop or priest. Also, what are the different color ranks?
Keruvalia
27-06-2005, 07:15
What is he?

Goth.
Sel Appa
28-06-2005, 19:19
That can't be. He had a cape-like thing. He was some sort of minister. And Goths don't wear crosses.
Herbert W Armstrong
28-06-2005, 19:22
Batman?
Vetalia
28-06-2005, 19:24
Goth.

I've never seen a priest go around dressed in his vestments, and they are never all black.
Paternia
28-06-2005, 19:27
I don't think it was a bishop, usually only Bishops wear those huge crosses(called pectorals) though. He was either a bishop or maybe some sort of Orthodox priest. The cape, if memory serves, is called a cope and bishops only wear those too, but I don't think bishops dress in black.

Perhaps he was a third-order priest of the Benedictines, they wear black and dress differently than the average priest.
German Nightmare
28-06-2005, 19:28
Yay!

Well, did he look like

a)
http://news.spirithit.com/images/uploads/articles_ext_194x215/08.10.04_priest_194.jpg

b)
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0372784/Ss/0372784/BD6468.jpg

or c) ?
http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/pic/morten%20goth/$file/morten%20goth.jpg