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To: Kolokotronis; NYer

One would guess that Eastern Catholic archimandrites also dress that way.


10 posted on 05/22/2008 7:39:34 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)
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To: Pyro7480

“One would guess that Eastern Catholic archimandrites also dress that way.”

Not as a general proposition, no. The hat is the giveaway. It was imposed on the clergy by the Turks but perhaps this could be a Melkite priest. By the way, the fellow in the picture might as likely be a married priest. It looks like he might be wearing a cross or an icon which made me think hierarch or archimandrite, but a priest might wear one too. Archimandrites, BTW, also usually (but not always) would have a sort of veil coming down the sides and back of the hat which this fellow doesn’t.


11 posted on 05/22/2008 7:55:47 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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