Bi-ritual clerical clothing

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I want to know, if a priest ordained in latin church, has bi-ritual faculties (byzantine rite), can he wear byzantine catholic clerical clothes?
For example, can bi-ritual priest (Latin/Byzantine) wear engolpion (panagia), or other byzantine catholic clothes or crosses (medallions)?
I am talking about non-liturgical clothing, I already know that bi-ritual priests can wear the liturgical vestments of other rites.
 
No, since that priest is a Latin-rite priest; he may only wear Latin-rite clerical garb, namely the cassock.

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Can. 284 Clerics are to wear suitable ecclesiastical garb according to the norms issued by the conference of bishops and according to legitimate local customs.

Byzantine priestly clothing isn’t appropriate for a Latin-rite priest, even if he is biritual — he is a Latin priest and therefore wears the cassock, etc.

I suggest reading: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=783211
 
Thank you!
But what about three bar crosses or panagia?
Can a Roman priest wear Roman cassock and panagia?
 
Firstly, Panagia is not for priests, it is reserved for bishops. (I am not sure about chorepiscopo but they are not in Byzantine tradition.)

There are more types of biritual priests.

Some are granted these faculties and are sent to serve in another rite and act as priests of their second rite. (I know also such bishop.) So then they usually wear clothes appropriate to rite in which they serve the community. This is situation when the “second rite” is not just a “by-way activity for a while” but their main and often only job.

Some are serving in two (or more) parishes. Then bishop / bishops usually tell them how to be dressed or there is at least something like “usual manner” how to be dreesed. Quite often in clothing appropriate to the rite of parish where are they and when serving in another also wearing another cassoc. I know about Latin priest who serves mainly according Byzatine rite and when doing something conected with this parish, he seems to be Byzantine. But sometimes he serves in Armenian parish and when doing anything connected woth this service, he looks like Armenian. And in “free time” in no way connected with these two one, he wears his own cassoc.

It is not unsual to see biruitual priest wearing “cassoc” according to rite with which his activities are connected when dressed in it. Imagine Latin priest grandted Byzantine faculties for example beacuse of lack of their own priests who would behave fully as a Latin. He is sent to Byzantines to serve them (and not only by liturgies and nothing else) so when acting as a Byzantine priest, also looking as a Byzantine priest.

And there is also thing called “adaptation of rite”.
 
RimoGrkoKatolik said:
Thank you!
But what about three bar crosses or panagia?
Can a Roman priest wear Roman cassock and panagia?
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There are sui iuris churches where (pectoral) cross is for each priest (or nearly each) but in many it is honor given to some. (For example to be a mitred priest is also honor in Byzantine tradition.) Then this would be according to the fact if he was honored in this way. If so, he would wear in during liturgies and also as a part of his non-liturgical clothing.

Panagia is just for bishops. But vladyka Milan Šášik (Sasik without diacritics) who is originally Roman but serving as a “full-time” Byzantine bishop of course wears Panagia. Another biritual bishop vladyka Ladislav Hučko wears and behaves in a Byzantine way" but when he was serving Roman mass, he wore Roman pectoral cross for bishops, not Byzantine Panagia. Jozef Cardinal Tomko who is Roman but with multi-ritual faculties also as bishop (Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for evangelization of peoples) wears Latin pectoral cross for bishops also when he is a main celebrant of Byzantine Divine liturgy and consecrates a Byzantine bishop as a main consecrator.
 
RimoGrkoKatolik said:
Thank you very much!
What is “adaptation of rite”?
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I don’t know exactly :D, some others should explain us but it sounds to me like:
“Well, you are Maronite and we will not change your sui iuris enscription but since know do everything like if you were Chaldean.”
So something stronger then just bi-ritual faculties which in their weakest form could really be something like “sometimes serving DL but others ways fully of your own rite”.
 
RimoGrkoKatolik said:
Thank you!
But what about three bar crosses or panagia?
Can a Roman priest wear Roman cassock and panagia?
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Firstly I answered another question, sorry.

To combine to tipes of clothes and traditions is not advised. So pectoral cross when wearing Byzantine riasa, not wtih Roman cassoc where pectoral cross is sign of bishop. On the other hand, he is still priest with priviledge of wearing pectoral cross so… I thing he would be told or he would ask. May be there is some rule but I don’t know.

And sometimes it is usual to see also (not only) Greek Catholic priests / bishops in Roman cassocs. In a situation like this they addopted foreign dress as their own and wear pectoral crosses or Panagias like as dreesed in their own (appropriate) clothing.
 
Nestor_kea said:
Firstly I answered another question, sorry.

To combine to tipes of clothes and traditions is not advised. So pectoral cross when wearing Byzantine riasa, not wtih Roman cassoc where pectoral cross is sign of bishop. On the other hand, he is still priest with priviledge of wearing pectoral cross so… I thing he would be told or he would ask. May be there is some rule but I don’t know.

And sometimes it is usual to see also (not only) Greek Catholic priests / bishops in Roman cassocs. In a situation like this they addopted foreign dress as their own and wear pectoral crosses or Panagias like as dreesed in their own (appropriate) clothing.
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:signofcross:

I would say keep it simple and dress in regular black clerical garb.
 
My bishop (Bishop Gerald Dino of the Eparchy of Phoenix) generally wears a clerical suit with his panagia. Most priests I’ve met (and I’ve met every single priest in our Eparchy) have generally worn clerical suits without their pectoral crosses. But I don’t know if that’s typical behavior.

Our current pastor is a Roman Franciscan who wears his habit outside of liturgy, although he obviously vests in Byzantine vestments for services.
 
Gidge said:
I would suggest that the bi-ritual cleric in question wear the garb of the rite he uses oftenest. 😃
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The ones I’ve met (several - 5 or 6) wear the ones for whichever they are incardinated in.

Rev. Fr. Mike switched when he incardinated into the Eparchy of Van Nuys…
 
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