What color do archbishops wear?

Answer 1

When 'off duty' Rowan wears normal clothes, just like you and I.

When 'on duty' as archbishop, he dresses smartly in a suit, with a reddish purple shirt (as worn by all bishops), a white 'dog collar' and a large pectoral cross (a cross worn like a pendant on the chest). He also wears an 'episcopal ring' signifying his role as a bishop.

When in church and robed, his robes depend on the occasion and the service. If robed for a communion service, he will wear a long black cassock or white cassock alb over his normal clothes, and a long decorative cloak called a cope that has a hood on the rear shaped like a tongue, representing the tongues of fire of the Holy Spirit which came at Pentecost. Nowadays, the hood has transformed into merely a tongue-shaped piece of cloth. On his head he wears a mitre (a long pointed bishop's hat) and in his hand he carries a bishop's crozier - a crook similar to a shepherd's crook but symbolic and highly decorated, symbolising his role as the shepherd of thhe people of the diocese or whole Church.

Answer 2

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Catholic AnswerThe only difference between the dress of a bishop and that of an archbishop is that an archbishop is given a pallium by the pope as symbol of his authority over his province.

Answer 3

Purple is the color proper to prelates of the Western church, and their bierettas, cassocks, mozzette, etc. are of that color unless they belong to a religious order. A priest is said to be "raised to the sacred purple" when he becomes a cardinal, though the cardinalitial color is actually scarlet. Roman purple is reddish in shade. Archbishops wear the same color as other prelates, such as bishops and monsignori. from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957

Answer 4

An archbishop would wear the same thing a Bishop would wear. He would wear a zuccetto on his head, except during the consecration. He would normally wear a miter over this at most liturgical functions.

Answer 5

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Catholic AnswerThe only thing that an archbishop would wear that would be considered as jewelry would be the same as a bishop: a ring of Office and a pectoral cross. The only thing different for an archbishop is they are granted a pallium by the Pope. The pallium is a strip of lamps wool which encircles the neck and hangs down, it is not considered jewelry.

Answer 6

The archbishop basically wears a robe a cross and a hat