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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: On the feast of the Epiphany, the archdeacon ascends the pulpit after the singing of the Gospel and sings out the dates of the moveable feasts of the coming church year and also the day of the diocesan synod
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of porter or doorkeeper, the first of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop gives a large key to the candidate for ordination, who kneels before him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of lector or reader, the second of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne, and the ordainees listen while another priest reads “verbum Dei,” or the word of God from a book, perhaps a lectionary o...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the sixth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect with the strip of linen (mappula) tied around his head, kneels before the presiding bishop who anoints both his hands with holy oil. Another priest continues to hold the book of the...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect kneels before the chief consecrating bishop, as he and his assistant bishops place the book of the Gospels on his neck and shoulders
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect kneels before the presiding bishop and says aloud the oath of his office
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect kneels before the seated presiding bishop. A priest continues to hold the book of the Gospels open behind his head while the presiding bishop makes a sign of the cross with holy oil...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect, wearing a biretta or pointed cap and a cope, sits in the midst of several other bishops who will consecrate him. The presiding bishop wears a chasuble and mitre, the other bishops ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop: the prostration before the altar. The bishop-elect lies fully prostrate on the floor before the altar, while the chief consecrating bishop and his assistant bishops kneel and recite a litany.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a bishop. The ceremony of bestowal of the pallium must take place in the new bishop’s own diocese. The pallium is a long woolen cloth embroidered with six small black crosses sent to the bishop by the pope. Here t...