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A bishop's mitre is the head-dress worn by a bishop as a symbol of office.

Different religions have different shaped mitres. In the Eastern church they often look like turbans, in the Western church they are often tall and deeply cleft.

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His badge of office, like the crown of a King or Queen.

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In the consecration of a Bishop, the mitre is considered symbolically as the helmet of salvation. - From A Catholic Dictionary ed. by Donald Attwater

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