A mitre is used as a symbol of the bishop's ministry in Western Christianity.

An Eastern bishop's coat of arms will normally display an Eastern-style mitre, cross, eastern style crosier and a red and white ( or red and gold ) mantle.

By 1700, grenadiers in the English and other armies had adopted a cap in the shape of a bishop's mitre, usually decorated with the regimental insignia in embroidered cloth.

Ralph also had the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury search for documents relating to the privileges of Canterbury and had those documents copied into a manuscript which still survives, BM MS Cotton Cleopatra E. His seal is one of the first to take the usual form for bishop's seals, with Ralph standing, in full vestments including a mitre, and performing a benediction with his right hand while holding his crosier in his left.

Also known as the " bicuspid valve " because it contains two flaps, the mitral valve gets its name from the resemblance to a bishop's mitre ( a type of hat ).

( The orientation of the two leaflets resemble a bishop's mitre, whence the valve receives its name.

The bishop's mitre is surmounted by a cross, but the priest's is not ; both are bulbous and adorned with icons.

The site of this gate is marked by a stone bishop's mitre, fixed high on the building located at the junction of Wormwood Street with Bishopsgate, just by the gardens there and facing the Heron Tower.

* The mitre, the bishop's headdress

* I Gules a bishop's mitre Or lined Argent ( for La Seu d ' Urgell )

On all occasions, an altar server may wear a shawl-like veil, called a vimpa, around the shoulders when holding the bishop's mitre.

The papal tiara was replaced with a bishop's mitre.

Coptic priests frequently wear a mitre, similar to a Western bishop's mitre.

The Armenian bishop's mitre differs from its Western counterpart in that the points at the top are usually joined together.

The mitral valve, so named because of its resemblance to a bishop's mitre, is the heart valve that prevents the backflow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium of the heart.

Instead of the ermine fess a cross was introduced, charged with a bishop's mitre.

The emblems in the upper left and lower left quarters were subsequently altered to a bishop's mitre and a Roman eagle standard.

The genus was given the name Mitragyna by Korthals because the stigmas in the first species he examined resembled the shape of a bishop's mitre.

The use of bishop's mitre and of unleavened bread, is reminiscent of the influence Western missionaries once had upon both the miaphysite Orthodox Armenians as well as upon the Armenian Rite Catholics.

A white zucchetto and a white bishop's mitre adorned Pope John Paul II's head.

The statue captures the saint's refusal of the bishop's mitre and staff when offered by a cherub, while his right hand rests on a skull, reminding him of his mortality.

The gray marble base of the altar has carved on the right side an open book and several keys, on the left a bishop's mitre and crozier.

A mid-15th century, late Gothic wooden sculpture of a standing Memelia with the infant Servatius in her arms, identifiable by the bishop's mitre he is already wearing ( Vendsyssel Historiske Museum, Denmark ), was iconographically so similar to contemporary Madonna and Child sculptures, that it was long misattributed.

-- The king then rose up from amongst the assembly and forthwith directed one of his own messengers to accompany the bishop's messenger, and to tell him that the people were unanimously inclined to accept his proposal and at the same time to tell him that, whilst their action was entirely agreeable to him, he could not give his full consent until, in another assembly, which was to be held in another part of his kingdom, he could announce this resolution to the people who lived in that district.

To symbolize their bond with the papacy, the pope gives each newly appointed cardinal a gold ring, which is traditionally kissed by Catholics when greeting a cardinal ( as with a bishop's episcopal ring ).

Records show the similar game of " crookey " being played at Castlebellingham in 1834, which was introduced to Galway in 1835 and played on the bishop's palace garden, and in the same year to the genteel Dublin suburb of Kingstown ( today Dún Laoghaire ) where it was first spelt as " croquet ".

Orestes was powerless, but nonetheless rejected Cyril's gesture of offering him a Bible, which would mean that the religious authority of Cyril would require Orestes ' acquiescence in the bishop's policy.

Two deacons go to priest-elect who, at that point, had been standing alone in the middle of the church, and bow him down to the west ( to the people ) and to the east ( to the clergy ), asking their consent by saying “ Command ye !” and then lead him through the holy doors of the altar where the archdeacon asks the bishop ’ s consent, saying, “ Command, most sacred master !” after which a priest escorts the candidate three times around the Holy Table, during which he kisses each corner of the Holy Table as well as the bishop's epigonation and right hand and prostrates himself before the holy table at each circuit.

The event was recorded both in German and Old East Slavic chronicles, which also provided the first record of a settlement of German merchants and artisans which had arisen alongside the bishop's fortress.

Second, the queen is not hampered by the bishop's inability to control squares of the opposite color to the square on which it stands.

Each episcopal area contains one or more annual conferences, which is how the churches and clergy under the bishop's supervision are organized.

The episcopal tablets symbolise the four Gospels which must be the focus of a bishop's teachings.

Bishopstowe ( now the Palace Hotel ) served as the bishop's residence, which he preferred as a home to the Bishop's Residence attached to Exeter Cathedral.

Pierre Chaplais, who argues for St-Calais being the main organizer of the survey, argues the bishop's exile in 1088 interrupted work on the Little Domesday Book, a subproject of the survey which was left uncompleted.

This was originally a practical application which prevented the bishop's hand from sweating and discolouring ( or being discoloured by ) the metal.

This may be a private chapel, for the use of one person or a select group ( a bishop's private chapel, or the chapel of a convent, for instance ); a semi-public oratory, which is partially available to the general public ( a seminary chapel that welcomes visitors to services, for instance ); or a public oratory ( for instance, a hospital or university chapel ).

A co-cathedral is a cathedral church which shares the function of being a bishop's seat, or cathedra, with another cathedral.

The new subdeacon kisses the bishop's right hand and makes a prostration before the bishop, after which the more senior subdeacons drape a towel over his shoulders and present him with a ewer and basin, with which he washes the bishop's hands after the usual manner.

This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral.

After the Little Entrance, the arch-priest and arch-deacon conduct the bishop-elect before the Royal Gates where he is met by the bishops and kneels before the altar on both knees and the Gospel Book is laid over his head and the consecrating bishops lay their hands upon the Gospel Book, while the prayers of ordination are read by the eldest bishop ; after this, the newly consecrated bishop ascends the synthranon ( bishop's throne in the sanctuary ) for the first time.

The school badge features a bishop's crook in reference to St Cuthbert's time as a bishop, as well as ducks, reflecting his love of the animals.

Scott was a steadfast supporter of the Gothic revival and designed the tomb of the first bishop ; he had a new bishop's throne built ( 1903 ), together with commemorative stalls for Bishop Festing and two Archdeacons, and new choir stalls.

The bishop dries his hands and the three subdeacons receive the bishop's blessing and kiss his hands.

In the Church of Ireland some curates are styled " bishop's curates " as they are accountable directly to the diocesan bishop, while sometimes mentored by local parish clergy and are perceived to have more autonomy than other assistant curates.

He bequeathed his library to his successors as bishop, and it remains at Hartlebury Castle, but its fate remains uncertain, now that the castle has ceased to be used as the bishop's residence.

The bishop's seat is the earliest symbol of bishop's authority, and the word " see " is thus often applied to the area over which the bishop exercises authority.

The bishop was easygoing ; his friend the archdeacon was elderly, tippling, and still appreciative of attractive women ; and the bishop's chaplain was naïve and accident-prone.

Julián wants to be a priest and asks the bishop many times to make him one, but in the end he lets the Mayan priest sacrifice him, and Julián takes the bishop's amethyst ring.

His family was of Scottish descent, but had been connected with Ireland since the reign of Charles I. Amongst his ancestors were John Leslie ( 1571 – 1671 ), bishop first of Raphoe and afterwards of Clogher, and the bishop's son Charles Leslie.

However the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1871, following the previous scrapping of Roman Catholic-paid tithes, fatally weakened the economic survival of the bishop's estate, which was left totally reliant on the small local Church of Ireland community, and in 1885 the bishop sold the estate and house, moving to a smaller mansion nearby ( which Church of Ireland continued to live until 1958 and which was then sold to a Roman Catholic religious institute, the Holy Ghost Fathers ).

When the bishop sits at the cathedra, a special silk cloth, called a gremial ( e ), of the same liturgical colour as the bishop's vestments is placed in his lap.

Bede states: At length the king, who understood none but the language of the Saxons, grown weary of that bishop's barbarous tongue, brought into the province another bishop of his own nation, whose name was Wini, who had been ordained in France ; and dividing his province into two dioceses, appointed this last his episcopal see in the city of Winchester, by the Saxons called Wintancestir.

Anne's was designated as the cathedral for the new diocese of Detroit ; it served in this role until 1848, when coadjutor bishop Peter Paul Lefevere moved the bishop's throne to St. Peter's Cathedral, today's Saints Peter and Paul Church.

A cathedra ( Latin, " chair ", from Greek, kathedra, " seat ") or bishop's throne is the chair or throne of a bishop.

The Hegumen's kathisma would be simpler than the one for the bishop, sometimes raised atop two steps, located to the side of the bishop's throne.

If the bishop rejects the clerk within that time he is liable to a duplex querela ( Latin ; " double complaint ": The procedure in ecclesiastical law for challenging a bishop's refusal to admit a presentee to a benefice ) in the ecclesiastical courts, or to a quare impedit in the common law courts, and the bishop must then certify the reasons of his refusal.

the introduction of the Church of England Pensions Board, by the Incumbents ' Resignation Act 1871, Amendment Act 1887, any clergyman who had been an incumbent of one benefice continuously for seven years, and became incapacitated by permanent mental or bodily infirmities from fulfilling his duties, could, if the bishop thought fit, have a commission appointed to consider the fitness of his resigning ; and if the commission reported in favour, he could, with the consent of the patron ( or, if that is refused, with the consent of the archbishop ) resign the cure of souls into the bishop's hands, and have assigned to him, out of the benefice, a retiring-pension not exceeding one-third of its annual value, recoverable as a debt from his successor ;