How to identify a visiting bishop?

[choy]

Our visiting bishop celebrated 7 a.m. Mass with us again today.

1. He did not move diagonally. He seemed very straightforward.
2. It was a pectoral cross, really a crucifix.
3. He was wearing the purple skullcap, but not in clerics, only while vested.
4. Today he wore a Roman collar of the type we’re familiar with.

Apparently, he’s visiting relatives; several of them were at the Mass. After the “Mass is ended, go forth etc.” these relatives broke into song and them words weren’t English. The song was obviously a hymn, it was quite beautiful. Might’ve been the Ave Maria in whatever Kenyans speak? Swahili? The bishop broke into a huge grin when they started singing.

World culture comes to downtown hicksville, Nevada

i was suspecting that he was there on vacation rather than an official capacity, that is why the lack of more official garments

 

[FrCorey]

err, Ask him for id?

 

[choy]

err, Ask him for id?

i think the other priests who came after verified that he is indeed a bishop

 

[5Loaves]

Perhaps the only other priests you may see with a pectoral cross will be abbots.

Parish priests of Eastern Catholic Churches always wear a pectoral cross, but in that case he’d have been wearing a riasson/cassock. Our bishops wear a Panagia which depicts the Theotokos. You’d see an Eastern cleric not in a cassock about as often as you’ll see an Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest or SSPX priest in street clothes.

 

[Zooey]

You can spot a bishop, even in “street clothes”, by the fact that he only moves diagonally.

:thankyou:

 

[GwenL]

err, Ask him for id?

err, no. I’m a lay lector. I trust that my rector knows what he’s doing.